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*in my own little world.
No, really, it's probably just plain laziness on the part of those writers. Hell, I'll do it occasionaly just 'cause I'm not thinking.
I assume you're referring to the IGJA's Style Guide.
While I agree with most of what the book says, I have to agree with your sentiment here. Videogame just looks weird.
Pong was the first video game I ever played.
Ninja Gaiden is a difficult videogame.
Ugh. I see the difference, and it hurts my eyes.
Perhaps it's just accepted now, much like "phat".
videogames!
I mean seriously. Funner. Go stab your fucking eyes out. It's more fun, jackass.
Anyways, I agree with your sentiment, although I am guilty of sometimes putting them together. I just can't get that angry about it either way. Now if someone said being a videogamer is funner, well then you should know I will provide masterledz with a thousand half-starved badgers to come and kill you, full on ninja-pirate style. With guns. And cocks.
that is all.
I used to experience minor irritation at the vast linguicide Internet writers perpetrate, but I've come to accept that the strength of the English language is its flexibility.
Besides, "videogames" has a specific connotation to me that is not well represented by the fairly generic (adj.) "video" (noun) "games". If "video tape" can be officially compounded to "videotape", why not the same with games?
"Besides, "videogames" has a specific connotation to me that is not well represented by the fairly generic (adj.) "video" (noun) "games". If "video tape" can be officially compounded to "videotape", why not the same with games?"
For some reason I can only think of worlds colliding if that were to happen.
As pointed out above the definition of video and the difinition of game don't add up to the definition of videogame anymore, thus a new word is made that will eventually become common place and in dictionaries and later people will complain when it is combined with some other word to make a new word. Such is language born (this and drinking, I'm pretty sure Portuguese was just a bunch of drunk spanairds.)
None of these used to be words either. Tell me you don't use at least a couple in the list on occasion.
And MaxVest, your right, one of the great things about our language is it's flexibility, so I really should be more open to "videogames", but it just bothers me for some reason. Probably has more to do with the name video games being a part of my life for the past 25 years and I just don't see the need to change it now.
Thanks for the comments though everyone.
But I prefer the one-word version.