Oh, H-I, you're a non-native speaker who lives in a country where a completely different language is spoken, so of course you're going to make mistakes. I'm actually impressed enough by what you said about learning the language just to read books that weren't translated into your own that I think your mistakes should be universally forgiven. Then again, my own experiences with Spanish may have heightened my predisposition for this. Amanaduial's dyslexia makes proofreading difficult as well, I would imagine. What's asked for on this thread is clearly more difficult for some than for others.
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I made a poem
(one writes poems, one does not make them - I fear to read it)
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On the other hand, I wrought a play. Hmmm...
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some of the spelling is truly dire, especially stuff like "the barrow-Wright."
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Interestingly enough, BW is one of the few barrow-wights around who really
is a barrow wright. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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And, also, please note that neither Maril nor I named any names. The thread titles are given here anonymously. We want to raise awareness about good writing habits rather than point fingers at specific people.
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Of course, the makers of threads are very easy to identify, and correct spelling does not constitute "good writing habits," but there's no point in getting into a discussion of literacy here. The writing center worker in me does have some problems with this thread, creature of the autonomous model that it is, but I wouldn't want people to think me overwrought.
--Belin Ibaimendi
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