[ SECRET POST #1756 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1756 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 165 secrets from Secret Submission Post #251.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry, but what?

You're either accusing me of replying directly to the secret by being off-topic, or you're telling me not to reply to the anon because they're being off-topic. If the former is the case, then I'm afraid you've missed my point. If the latter is the case, then wouldn't it be more productive to respond to the original anon instead of attempting to dictate who I happen to agree with? Seriously, if it's their opinion you disagree with so passionately and if you believe I'm just being a white-knight towards the wrong person, then it would be more productive and convincing to address the source of the matter and convince me that the original point is incorrect. Otherwise, I'm going to continue looking at you strangely because you seem to be more concerned with the fact that I'm "white-knighting" and off-topic than with what the original point of the thread was.

[delwynmarch.livejournal.com]

There are several reasons I chose to respond to you and not the other anon.

1. I'm free to choose who or what I want to reply to. Also, it's not either/or: I could have replied to both of you or neither of you.

2. The other anon annoyed me and yet bored me at the same time. They expressed an off-topic opinion, but they did it in a short comment, which somehow didn't prompt me to reply to them.

3. I was much more annoyed by the factual mistakes you made. You listed mistakes that ESLs do not typically make, and that annoyed me very much because I've heard far too often the old refrain that goes "Sheesh, you guys, I know your ESL's, but u really need 2 learn the difference before waste and waist! I shouldn't of to read you're fic a loud to understand it!" when in fact, it's typically native speakers who make those mistakes. We ESLs get blamed for most of the badly-written fics out there, when in fact most of those fics are written by native speakers, and that pisses me off.

So... I guess you were just unlucky?

[(Anonymous)]

1. I understand that you're free to respond to whoever you want, but what makes you think that at the same time, I'm not free to agree with whoever I want? That's the question.

2. Meh. No response here.

3. Again. Talking about basic English. I never said that I thought those were errors ESLs alone make. I just said that the key point to communication is caring to be clear about one's thoughts. In truth, I couldn't come up with a better example because it was early morning for me, and as such, yes, I do admit that everyone in general should know how to put a period at the end of a sentence. However, I wasn't trying to name examples of errors ESLs make but instead failures to write in basic English, period. (Is that what was so unclear? Because that's basically what I've been trying to get across here, really: the fact that you were focusing on only one detail of my post that actually wasn't my main argument.)