I had recently posted a rather critical review for a story I don't wish to name at the moment. Today I found, nestled audaciously in my inbox, a PM from the author of that story, whom, again, I don't wish to name at the moment. What I find more annoying than a person with abysmal English is a person with abysmal English who is not aware of it. And what is even more annoying than such a person is a person with abysmal English who is aware of it, but is not willing to improve. The aforementioned author is the embodiment of this description.
Here's the PM he/she sent me:
Hello, thank you for your review...You're right, I am really bad in English (
I'm not american, australian or british), but I'm good in Italian, Filipino,
French and I also speak a little bit of German and Japanese... English is not
the only language in this world, see?
And when I write a fic all I think is to share my thoughts...I guess even the
other authors you called a group of idiotshe same...
I can accept your opinion about me because I know it's true... but don't call
the people here stupids, idiots or whatsoever... they may be not good in
writing in English, but who knows? Maybe, they are much more greater than you
in some other things, right?
And there are also some writers here who are better than you, yourself...
like Akimidorisan.
To say the truth I actually like your writing style...and I admire you ( as
an author, of course).
Anyway, thank you for your comments, next time I'll try my best to write a
fic with less errors, okay? I'll wait for your "mean" reviews. ^^
Let us begin first with the fact that even this PM has more grammatical errors than I can count. To point them out would make it too easy, so I'll leave locating them to you as homework. For another, I have no interest whatsoever in how many languages he/she speaks, because that is, frankly, beside the point. Prevaricating, I should say. 'Share my thoughts' Pah! It's like a mute person desiring to please people with his songs. How can you 'share your thoughts' without knowing anything of the language? And she alluded to me having called some unmentioned 'other' authors 'stupids' and 'idiots' which I deny and label a severe and baseless accusation. Notice that stupid is an adjective and yet he/she has given it a plural form. Ah, I've pointed out an error! My bad. Much greater than me in other things, eh? Perhaps at playing the piano? Or at singing, or at dancing? Then maybe they should have signed up for 'piano.net' or 'song.net' and so forth instead of fanfiction.net. I suppose this author has not already noticed that fanfiction.net is a place for fiction, which, in other words, is a place where a person's writing ability will solely be in perspective, for a bad fan fiction story cannot be justified by saying the concerned author is good at playing the piano or at singing. That is, again, equivocating, or rather, digressing altogether. Aki Midori? I acknowledge that she is better than me at writing. Why else should I have added her to my favorite authors list? So that's two points against you -- bad English, and a pitiful lack of common sense and the ability to think logical. He/She tells me the truth in the end, you see, that he/she admires me as an author. Personally, there's nothing about the statement that calls for a declaration of truthfulness. It is plainly obvious that the majority of authors on the site is better than him/her -- I don't have to point that out. What I would like to point out is that in today's world, you don't have to be American, British or Australian to have good English (and see? Proper nouns begin with capital letters.) Indolent people use this as an excuse not to accept their mistakes strive to improve. And finally, I would like to dabble for a moment on his/her usage of double quotation marks around the word
mean. That could only mean that I was not mean enough, right? (No pun intended.) I take it that the author concerned desires a greater degree of meanness from me. In that case, I will not refrain from unleashing the most severe criticisms I can come up with.
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