Do you care about grammar?

[ChampDog]

Originally Posted by QuirkyJessi

It's interesting you mention that, Champ. I find that native English speakers tend to make way more grammatical errors than those that use it as a second or third language. A lot of native English speakers tend to get lazy, just don't care, or end up using a lot of slang, so they sometimes come off as sloppy. Non-native speakers seem to pay closer attention and with practice, end up using it really well. I don't mind grammatical errors here or there that are obviously just mistakes and not laziness.

Oh really? I'm not sure about that. For me, I try to make my very best without any grammatical errors. It always ends up the are still grammatical errors. I think communication is the key, as long as you can communicate well, grammatical error is acceptable. Of course, it is unacceptable if there are too many grammatical errors until no one can really understand what you're talking about. I hope I"m not one of them! Hahaha...

[AAFblog]

Originally Posted by ChampDog

I'm actually wondering. Can you give me favor? Visit my blog and let me know do you have the similar feeling?

Yours seems fine to me.

[ChickenFreak]

Originally Posted by ChampDog

I'm actually wondering. Can you give me favor? Visit my blog and let me know do you have the similar feeling?

You weren't asking me, so I will happily go away if you don't want my opinion (I do tend to be a bit cranky), but I do see a number of grammar issues in your blog. I don't have to struggle to understand, and it's not sloppy - it feels like someone for whom English is a second language, but that someone is doing their best - but there are issues, and maybe if you could pick out the patterns you could correct some of them.

So, let me know if you'd like some details.

[ChampDog]

Originally Posted by AAFblog

Yours seems fine to me.

Thanks!

[ChampDog]

Originally Posted by ChickenFreak

You weren't asking me, so I will happily go away if you don't want my opinion (I do tend to be a bit cranky), but I do see a number of grammar issues in your blog. I don't have to struggle to understand, and it's not sloppy - it feels like someone for whom English is a second language, but that someone is doing their best - but there are issues, and maybe if you could pick out the patterns you could correct some of them.

So, let me know if you'd like some details.

Thanks for your honest feedback! I love it. Can you email me and tell me the details for what can be further improved? I'm interested to know too. You can email me at "ChampDog at Gmail Dot Com". I really appreciate that and thanks in advance.

[theeventof]

I understand that there are many people that are trying to write English blogs when English is their second language and grammar can be extremely difficult to catch on to. However, a well written blog is so much easier to read.

Yes content is important but, if it's impossible to read because the grammar errors, than I will probably stop reading and try to find something else.

The thing is that many people that have English as their first language write like it's their second language so it's impossible to tell if someone is learn a new language or if they've just failed to learn their first.

[ChickenFreak]

Originally Posted by ChampDog

Thanks for your honest feedback! I love it. Can you email me and tell me the details for what can be further improved? I'm interested to know too. You can email me at "ChampDog at Gmail Dot Com". I really appreciate that and thanks in advance.

Are you OK with my posting here instead?

[ChampDog]

Originally Posted by ChickenFreak

Are you OK with my posting here instead?

Hahaha... preferable no. But if you really think is worth to share with everyone here, please go ahead. Giving few example will do (especially those grammar that I do not aware of and not those kind of simple typo). It has been quite sometime no one correct my grammar,and I will appreciate if I can receive some feedbacks.

[ChampDog]

Originally Posted by ChickenFreak

Are you OK with my posting here instead?

Btw, don't paste the whole content here if you decided to post it here. Just one or two sentences will do.

[ChickenFreak]

Originally Posted by ChampDog

Btw, don't paste the whole content here if you decided to post it here. Just one or two sentences will do.

I fear that it's looking like too much work. Sorry to withdraw the offer, but I don't know how to narrow it down so that everything is communicated while still only using one or two of your sentences. I'd have to analyze the writing, pick the most important two problems, and find one sentence for each problem, and that sounds tiring.

It occurs to me, though, to wonder if an "editing help" part of this site would be useful. I participate in a writing forum with a critiquing workshop, where people post their writing and other people critique it, sometimes line by line. There are a lot of English-as-a-second-language bloggers, and I wonder if a place where they could ask people to critique their posts - or critique other material that they _didn't_ post in their blog, if they're worried about copyright - would be useful to them.

Edited to add: Actually, i don't know why I'm specifically talking about English as a second language. Plenty of writing errors occur among native English speakers as well.