tanteFeb 22
Many of the people I do have online conversations with speak English as their first language. I kinda get by but you native speakers really underestimate how hard it is to express oneself in a foreign language. Concepts work differently, metaphors don't really translate, references you have used for decades don't make sense.
Show threadtanteFeb 22
Like in German I am actually somewhat eloquent and texts I write don't look like a person with a head injury wrote them.
Show threadtanteFeb 22
(Sparked by some of the comments to my recent article about Cory Doctorow telling me how my writing sucks and is unreadable because of grammar mistakes and typos.)
Show threadAshe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛
@tante if I didn’t see you post in German every so often, I would think you were a native English speaker 🤷🏼‍♀️
Feb 22 at 6:46pmWeb
Show threadtanteFeb 22
@Ashedryden that is very kind of you to say
Show threadCarina C. ZonaFeb 22
@tante I see Ashe already said the exact thing I was about to say. So: ditto. It's not flattery. I genuinely would not have known.
Show threadDaveyFeb 22

@Ashedryden @tante

Yeah I'm a native English speaker and saw no hint that you couldn't be.

Those people are just too mad online.