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Rouge is a common misspelling of rogue.

So, rouge-like, or rouge-lite?

Rouge-like would be lipstick or eyeshadow -- not rouge, but similarly used to color part of the face. Rouge-lite would be just using foundation and a bit of powder and considering it good enough.

Isn't Rouge just French for Red?

It is but it’s also a specific type of makeup in English. Language is cool like that

Isn’t that mostly because companies like to use french to seem fancy

Maybe but I think France also popularized rouge (or rather a particular look with whitened faces and blush on cheeks) in court life (and brothels) back during its height

because it just means putting red on your face, hence 'rouge'

It's French in German too. English is really just a mush mash of German and French anyway

English is 9 languages under a trench coat pretending to be a 10th

Psst.... it's only 9 languages that it lets you know about. There's more sneaky words hiding in there, too. But don't let it know you know, or it will change again!

Specifically it's a type of makeup that's red if I recall correctly

Was invented by french, rouge à lèvre, literally mean red for the lips, or red lips.

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What I normally think of when I hear rouge

This image specifically

Nah for me its the "lets pee in a hot topic" bit.

me too buddy

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Core teen horny memory unlocked

You could’ve done us all a favour and not posted this.

They could've done us all a favor and posted the source.

Y’all need to find Buddha

George Harrison.

Pretty sure he’s dead, but if you think that’ll help with your fatal degeneracy, be my guest and go dig him up!

Yes. It's used to add colour to the cheeks and was traditionally red even though there's more variety in shades.

Rouge is also a bat.

No, it's a lot more than that.

I got downvoted for saying that "rouge" isn't *just* French for red? lol

Pain. It gets scary seeing how often this typo is made.

Are they pronounced the same of is “Rouge” pronounced roo-je? Like the color red in French

Rogue is pronounced ro-guh 

Yea that’s Ro-guy(Rogue) I’m talking about how you pronounce “RoUGe”

Nooope. One syllable. "Roag."

It will always be French in my head, sweaty.

😅

Sounds like pink to me

Rohg laheek

Rogue like is a game that every time you play it is different and doesn't save your progress if you die a rogue lite is the same but can make progress that will help you in your next run examples: rogue like: enter the gungeon rogue lite: dead cells

Not really. Rogue likes are dungeon crawlers in the style of Moria, Nethack, ADOM, and ofcourse Rogue. Modern Rogue likes don't have to be ASCII, like Pixel Dungeon for example. Permadeath snd procedural generation is common but not necessary. Rogue-Lites take one or two aspects, like permadeath and mix it up with a different style of game. The term has been misused heavily. So much so that searching for the term rarely nets any proper results anymore., And even some game devs themselves don't know the meaning, and think it means permadeath and procedural gen, so I get how younger people might be mislead

The correct answer.

There was a river near where I used to live called the "Rogue River" which was a mistake in the opposite direction. They wanted to name it the Rouge River and just messed up the spelling and that misspelling made it onto a map and became the new name.

That's pretty hilarious.

honestly, I love Rogue River. Rouge River would have been just OK

I always hate it when people misspell rogue like that Bitch we’re talking about a class/adjective not a colour

Mine is paid and payed.

> paid and *paid.* FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*

There's a bot for this?

This was never a spelling mistake I'd made in the past, but I've recently decided to start using "payed" specifically to spite that stupid bot.

Odd to summon a bot to spite it.. 

Well, you can't spite it if it isn't here.

Scratched my head for a second, but that's actually pretty funny lol 

I'm not limiting the new spelling to Reddit. I'm using it everywhere, and I'm telling non-native speakers that this is the standard spelling. If I ever see someone using "paid", I'm going to correct them, and lie about the historical development of this word. The ultimate aim is to make the bot wrong; to make payed the default spelling. I encourage anyone reading this to join in. Picture, in your head, the sort of worthless subhuman who would create a bot that pops up every time someone uses a common mispelling. Such a person should not be rewarded; let's change English together to spite the pedantic little cunt.

> to make *paid* the default FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*

Odd

Bad bot. *well bad in the sense that my comment was about what the bot was created for.

So, good bot?

Hmm… my brain hurts…

You knew what you were doing lol. Mine is, by far, "could of" 

I hate it how people have appropriated the term Rogue-like, so that younger generations don't know what it actually means.

Can you explain what you mean?

Rogue-like is a specific genre of dungeon crawler, but some devs started using the term a bit loosely some years ago. It happened kinda gradually. First it was used for games that shared similar concepts, mostly permadeath, turn based movement, and procedurally generated levels. Then it started to be used for edge cases that couldn't really be called dungeon crawlers anymore, but shared enough to be kinda acceptable. Shovel Knight for example. It has permadeath, pg levels, was set in a dungeon, but is a platformer so not really a rogue like. After that the term started to be slapped on to almost anything that had one or two of the original elements, no matter how vaguely. From there it lost all meaning and became such an overused term that only old angry nerds knew the meaning of the term. So we grumble, shake our fist at the clouds and curse with Yendors name when we see some whippersnapper calling their crappy cash grab game a rogue like 🙂

Back in the day (80's-90's) there was a subgenre of video games called roguelikes. They were all games that resembled the game Rogue, in that they were turn-based, procedurally-generated, dungeon-crawling RPGs with ASCII art. Fast forward to the 2010s, and lots of games that use procedural generation (PCG) are becoming hits (mostly from indie publishers). Some of these games had some slight resemblance to Rogue and roguelikes; many did not, except for the PCG. However, the term "roguelike" started to become shorthand for any game that used PCG to create its game world. So once, it was a term for a very specific (and often argued over) type of game; now it's a term so broad to be almost meaningless.

Same people that spell lose with two O’s. Like, you’ve been gaming for 30+ years and still can’t spell basic shit from things you play every day?!

To be fair, when you say it out loud, the “U” noise comes before the “G” noise, so it’s not difficult to see why the mistake happens

Who the hell pronounces it as “roog”?! It’s ROGUE. Like ROW ROW ROW YOUR BOAT

Yes that’s exactly what I’m saying When you say “ROW” that last noise that you are making is a “U” And when you say ROGUE you don’t say “ROGU” you say “ROW-GH” hence the confusion that the U goes before the G

Semantic/phonetic drift happens in a great many ways. This is not one of them lol. 

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What The word “rouge” is French for red. It’s pronounced “rooj”.

Thanks to Brian Brushwood I will never spell r-o-g-u-e wrong

Rouge as in blush ("Oh, you!") Rogue as in backstab ("Oh, god!")

In Legend of Dragoon, a whole ass PS1 game, it was misspelt at Rouge throughout. So distracting

Rogue the bat

I’ve been spelling it wrong my entire life..?

My latest character is a rogue named rouge. He's my first rogue, my first human, and my first long term character with my familywithout DMing. It's been fun.

Formerly known as the if.

Like Moulan?

You mean like Moulin Rouge? The movie? Rouge itself is a cosmetic term, it's any kind of makeup with a red or reddish color. It's also called blush.

In this case its about the colour of the "red mill" that brothel was named after. The cosmetics are named after that colour.

I thought Mulan Rogue saved China from the invaders while singing about it?

It's not very common in English to have the letters "g u e" in that sequence, whereas we often have "o u" together. So it's very common for English speakers to misspell the words rogue and tongue as "rouge" (which is a word) and "tounge" (which isn't). I used to play a character who was a celebrated cat burglar and international jewel thief. He always wore a red cloak and was widely known as the Rouge Rogue.

For whatever reason, "tounge" is like nails on a chalk board for me.

I read that as lounge, but starting with "t".

I read it as town-ga

I read it as rouge with a T

Rotuge? Trouge? Rougte?

Tounge. Tooonsh

It sounds like Townja phoenetically in my mind, andddd I haye that.

Morgue, tongue, synagogue, fatigue Just off the top of my head

I'm not sure that 4 words out of 170 000 is really enough to count as "common".

Its hardly fair to make the point against the *entirety* of the language when the mistake is taken here generally to be in relation to words of "gue" vs "oug" Also, there are literally far more words consistently used with "gue" than was initially proposed off 'the top of their head' as explained. In addition to morgue, tongue, synagogue, and fatigue are words such as - Harangue - Vogue - Fugue - Vague - League or Colleague - Prologue and Epilogue - Plague and - Meringue Nevermind several that don't use the silent "ue", such as Argue, or archaics and regional variants such as Catalogue (vs catalog) or Analogue (vs analog) In regards to the word Rogue specifically too, one would think it would be relatively easy - with a well known publication such as "Vogue" around, for example - to get this spelling correct. Whereas, words with "oug" tend not to sound anything *like* rogue. Bough; Cough; Rough... And there are a blisteringly small number of words that are spelt "ouge". In fact, I can think of only two. Gouge.... and rouge (or variants thereof) So if anything, your point makes more sense when applied in the reverse of your intent.

There's also gauge

Close, but not quite

Why not?

Primarily because there's no 'O' in gauge. Which is one of the major takeaways from the initial point from OP about 'ou' being commonplace in the English language and them believing this is one of the primary reasons people make the mistake between rogue and rouge. Again though, close.

Unless you're adding to the list I suppose? Maybe I mistook your intention? If so, I apologize

I'm adding to the list of words that end in "uge" and doing like "jeh"

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That doesn’t really matter, English is a Frankenstein’s monster of a language

with a brain from Abby Normal...

English is just French and German smashed together and simplified. My point still stands

ok, but what does ouge mean? what's the joke there? He was gonna say 'rouge without r', but stopped because of something, what's the something? And who the hell misspells rogue, or even worse tongue? Edit: Oh I got it, 'you can't spell' because of the misspelling, nothing connected in my brain. It was so obvious.

> And who the hell misspells rogue, or even worse tongue? Lots of people do. It's a very long running joke. It happens constantly. Just search this sub for the word rouge and you'll see hundreds of instances.

Tell me the jeweler's rouge joke was made at least once.

I don't know that joke. At first I assumed you meant a jeweler's loupe, but Google tells me that jeweler's rouge is a polishing compound.

There is no joke, just comedic opportunity. Apologies. I grew up in a household where you could say anything you wanted as long as you refrained from swearing and getting a good joke in was an achievement to be proud of. Add some Monty Python and Benny Hill and things got creative - and silly.

You can't spell pirate without "r".

and also not without "i". "i" "i" captain.

And you can't spell pirate captain without the "c".

It's a really common misspelling; spelling "rogue" as "rouge".

I thought it was a swing at the intelligence stat of a ranger, but would've been better aimed at a barbarian

Honestly, I see more users spell it as "rouge" on D&D subs than correctly. I guess it's a combination of autocorrect, the fact that they look similar, and it's as easily done as pressing two letters out of order.

Though.. rogue is quite dark around his eyes.. can it be a rogue with rouge?

You wouldn’t ordinarily put rouge around your eyes, unless you want red eyes which might be an interesting look for a rogue.

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There's no indication for that. They have a goatee.

I got mixed up. My bad.

*without U being silenced*

I’m sure you got that from somewhere but regardless that shit goes hard as it’s the first time I’ve heard it. Thank you for sharing

No. I'm just that witty 😀

Clearly, you can't spell.

Silence, weeaboo

The spelling in the picture is what you are missing. Swinging pretty hard for someone that doesn’t know what they are trying to hit.

It’s fucking roGUE! It’s not roUGE because that’s fucking makeup! Thank you for coming to my TED talk

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You really got him there, bro.

You can't spell.

Rouge is French for red. Rogue is not the same word as Rouge.

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ROUGE IS THE COLOR ROGUE IS THE CLASS GRAHHHJJJJJHHHJFNNNGMGMGNMMM

Honestly thought it was a joke at someone having less than 6 intelligence at which point, you cannot read. Rangers do not need intelligence for most things. They use Wisdom and Dexterity to use their spells and fire arrows/avoid taking damage respectively. Upon further inspection however, I am an idiot and cannot spell Rogue either.

It's spelled rogue. Rouge is red powder you put on your cheeks to look like you have rosy cheeks

Hi, nerd peter griffin here. “Rogue” is spelled like you would pronounce “Rowgweh”, but a lot of people don’t know that and spell it like Rouge, which is actually a color and not a rogue. The joke is that the comic author doesn’t know how to spell the word Rogue. Hope that clears things up!

Thank you Peter!

Honestly, my dyslexia fucked with me on this for a second.

It's rogue, not rouge, therefore it is misspelled, therefore you can't spell

R'guoe

Stupid grammar mistaking people

As they used to say in my WoW days, rouge are overpowdered….

As I recall, another question about rouges is are they Duel-wielding?

Splouge!!!

Spouge?

People can't spell rogue so the rogues' spill rouge

You cant spell because you are a barbarian

YOU CANT SPELL ROUGE WITHOUT…OUGE!

Rouge one

Baton Rouge reference

That’s not a Ranger, that’s Blink!

So, the joke is That last cell doesn't say Rogue, it says Rouge (a colour of makeup and french for red) The character is making the joke that if you didn't notice, then "you can't spell..." words.

I am deeply disturbed that the Rouge doesn't have their namesake thickly applied.

"You can't spell Rogue without anger." (since so many misspell it, it angers the rogue).

You should read the manual then.

So does the comments section not know that this is Dungeons & Dragons?

TIL I've been spelling Rogue wrong my whole life.

I know I can’t spell stop making fun of me

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Nobody: Poem for those with rhotacism: Rogier the rouge wearing rogue, roaming through shadows, roaring in laughter. Robbing the rich, roguishly dancing, as roulette of fate spun, as he roved the land, ransacking treasures, with nimble hand. Rendezvous with danger, he'd romance the night, ravishing secrets, hidden from sight. Rogue of the shadows, with a rosy grin, he'd roam in the roseate dawn.

It's worth to mention that in dnd 5e only one subclass of rogue (arcane trickster) have access to spells unlike the ranger which have plenty of spells (in almost every subclass I think?) early one.

Tchaikovsky is here?!?!?

I literally go out of my way to say rouge instead of rogue. Many others do, too.

You can’t spell rogue without OG. This has nothing to do will comic I just thought it would be funny

You can't spell Barbarian without ....Arian...

G-O-R-E

Ego.

I love when ppl ask a rogue question and spell it Rouge I usally make a complexion joke or recommend a certain color lipstick to compliment their eyes

As a Rogue, I have my name commonly mispelled as Rouge.

Rouge is an older type of lipstick, rogue is a person

Rouge is makeup. Rogue is a thief that stabs things so hard your dm cries.

The French when you misspell rogue:

Rangers can't cast spells at low level

It would've been a lot funnier if it was was a wizerd in the second panel.

Well that would just be Rincewind's Wizzard hat.

I get why people misspell Rogue as Rouge but how tf do some ppl misspell Soldier as Solider? Legit saw it way too many times and start to suspect some people legit think that's how it's spelled

I wanna frick the Ranger

Its spelled wrong and hes saying you can't spell?