I Can Speeking Engish Good?
Let me preface this by saying that this is not a value judgment on non-English speakers writing blogs. Many non-native English speakers blog in English and many are very popular. Many have great looking blogs and a good readership. They definitely have their place and I am the last person who would want to censor them.
That being said, however, I feel a rant coming on. And it goes a little like this…
Requiring blogs and posts to be written in fluent, conversational English means that I should not be able to tell in a few sentences that English is not your first language. If you cannot capitalize correctly, punctuate correctly, spell or make your subject and verb agree then, no matter what country you are from,
YOU DO NOT WRITE IN FLUENT ENGLISH
If you use the any of the following phrases in your communication:
Before 9 days… (when you mean 9 days ago)
Do the Needful…
Can you explain me…
More power…
huhuuhuhuhuuu…
YOU DO NOT WRITE IN FLUENT ENGLISH
If these are the arguments that you mount in your defense:
“The contents of the blog are presented at the left to retrieve the data’s faster.It also contains some picture for effective understanding.My blog is good and contain then fact that can be understood easily if seen and read by anyone.”
“Actually I was check it manually and use some software like Word and Grammar checker and didn’t find the error. Hope you can considered it again.”
“but today according to the blog assessment you not approved my blog for their market place.i work hard for build my blog and i improve my blog day by day.i appreciate if you can let me why you not approved my blog now.”
“why dosent my blog be approved when it are on english, if you want blog on english then you must approve it or else people wont blog here more”
“You keep on rejecting my blog saying “your posts were not written clearly and full of grammar mistakes”!! I don’t think my posts contain grammar mistakes!! It was written clearly with proper grammar!! I don’t want any lame reasons like this for rejecting my blog!!Please do accept my blog!! Hope you can do so!!”
“I’m sorry befor, I have email that my blog unable to approve because have error grammar, actually before submit my blog I was check it with word office software and didn’t find the error.”
“I’ve double checked it but found no error of this kind. I supposed that they are using grammar-checking programs to check the post instead of doing it by themselves. As there are many proper nouns in the post, automatic program may fail to recognize these words.”
“Mastery in english means we have to use high tech words.
As for my knowledge is concerned i don’t have grammar mistakes in posts.And the sentence formation in my posts are not so bad…
Please do see to that
i am trying to get approval
but all i get back is simply rejection
I m working too much in improving it”
YOU DO NOT WRITE IN FLUENT ENGLISH
I understand that times are tough all over and everyone is scrambling to earn money where they can. I understand that working in a Global economy like the interwebs, you are going to communicate with many whose first language is not English. And I appreciate that all of these people speak FAR better English than I speak French or German or Farsi or Hindi or Tagalog or Malay.
However, I DO speak fluent, conversational English and it astounds me the lengths others will go to to “prove” that they do as well, when all their “proof” does is further prove that they do not.
So, to all you bloggers out there, please understand that fluency either is or it is not. You either write in fluent English or you do not. There is no gray area and there is no arguing your way out of it.
</rant> End Rant ☺
