how do you spell "VIDEOGAMES": the poll

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
video games	14
videogames	7
vidya games	1
console games	0
games	0
nintendo	0

― abanana, Monday, 16 June 2008 05:48 (seventeen years ago)

last option is for your grandparents and sitcom writers

― abanana, Monday, 16 June 2008 05:49 (seventeen years ago)

two words

― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 June 2008 05:50 (seventeen years ago)

How do i spell it, or how do i say it?

"vidya" for spoken, one word for typed.

― kingfish, Monday, 16 June 2008 06:58 (seventeen years ago)

"video game" for spoken & typed

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 16 June 2008 07:44 (seventeen years ago)

I say "videogame" sometimes, it has its own unique flavor

― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 16 June 2008 07:45 (seventeen years ago)

"videogames", to distinguish from games that might be played outside (I don't ever do this). Or games that are played on a table with a slab of printed cardboard.
My father would vote for "useless waste of time go and read a book"...

― snoball, Monday, 16 June 2008 08:28 (seventeen years ago)

bintendo wee wee

― Jordan, Monday, 16 June 2008 14:33 (seventeen years ago)

When it comes to compounding words, I get all German. Mash that shit up into each other. VIDEOGAMES.

Did you know that it's still AP style to capitalize Web and Internet? So it's always "Web site" and not just "website".

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 16 June 2008 14:41 (seventeen years ago)

computer games

― r1o natsume, Monday, 16 June 2008 15:25 (seventeen years ago)

GRAMZX

― s1ocki, Monday, 16 June 2008 15:42 (seventeen years ago)

Did you know that it's still AP style to capitalize Web and Internet?

haha stoopid. even Tim Berners Lee has said they shouldn't be capitalised (iirc).

― ledge, Monday, 16 June 2008 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

Bobby, I said NO VIDYA GAMES

― forksclovetofu, Monday, 16 June 2008 21:22 (seventeen years ago)

Two words. Mashing up words... barrrffuuuuuugh.

― Nhex, Monday, 16 June 2008 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

how hypocritical of you

― s1ocki, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:06 (seventeen years ago)

warez

― bnw, Monday, 16 June 2008 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

^^^ lolz

― snoball, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 09:14 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Thursday, 19 June 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Enh.

― kingfish, Friday, 20 June 2008 02:33 (seventeen years ago)

Urgh I missed this one. Add an imaginary vote for "video games" because every reason I've seen for "videogames" has struck me as faulty at best.

1) removing the space will not make people take "videogames" more seriously.
2) "games" isn't latin so appending video to it doesn't make a lick of sense.
2) space or not, the name is bullshit anyway as games are generally based on a lot more than just video images these days. if you want it taken seriously it needs its own name sans "video" and sans "games." Call them ludos or inties (: interactive :: movie : moving picture) or fuck I dunno anything but video games/videogames.

― Will M., Friday, 20 June 2008 14:53 (seventeen years ago)

2) "tele" is not latin so appending vision to it etc etc

― ledge, Friday, 20 June 2008 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

seriously

― Will M., Friday, 20 June 2008 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

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