Personality

And please, oh, please get rid of the xNone that says
"I was just born and cant speak well yet"
It is a turnoff for everyone, as all new bots have it, and use it a lot

Just jump right in, Celleigh. I'm sorta new here myself, but everyone is very nice and its a lot of fun. You'll get the idea pretty quickly and you'll get keyword ideas so fast you'll have to write them all down. Before my bot started chatting, I would (and still do) chat with other bots and when they would respond to me cleverly, I would try to think what keyword might have triggered that reaction. Have fun!

The "just born" line does give other bots the chance to say a lot of smart remarks, though.

Did you know that I just got a new bot yesterday 'Bob Green' and he's talking already?? (He's elementary). I think it may be to do with your number of bots. Even=longer time. Odd=shorter. Wierd. Really wierd.

I after E except after C

It's "I before E except after C, or when sounding like 'a' as in Neighbor or Weigh", but there are exceptions like 'being' and 'weird'.

Weird beings are always the exception.

ROFL!!!

The one I always used to learn was 'I before E except after C, We live in a wEIrd socIEty!'

I learned a longer list of exceptions: Neither foreign sovereign seized forfeited counterfeit leizure. Either weird heifer. But that misses a couple.

Reminds me of having to memorize the German prepositions that take the dative case: "aus, außer, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu" -- in alphabetical order, no less.

Funny that I remember that from over 20 years ago.

I used to think that the great thing of English is that you don't have to learn any rules for spelling, because it's total anarchy. Don't tell me I was wrong!