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RE: Indians, fix your English please

Excellent post -- one of the best I've read in a while. And @svkrulze, your English is fine! It's hard for a native-English speaker to fuss at people who make mistakes in our language. It comes across as arrogant and entitled because, Lord knows, I couldn't do nearly as well in any other language as some of the posts I read from foreign speakers. So I feel more than a little hypocritical, too, when I complain to someone about his (or her) English.

But it's true. It's clear you have some wonderful people with terrific minds from your country. They have things to say and there are those of us who really want to hear it (and read it!!)

But, as a reader, when you stumble over sentences that don't make sense ... or you have to stop and try to figure out what someone is saying ... it interrupts the whole experience ... sometimes permanently. You get fed up and move on.

One of the wonderful things the internet chats and Steemit can do is show people how "English speakers" write. (Not always the best examples, I know ... because some native-English speakers are terrible writers. They make more mistakes than you guys!! And there is simply no excuse for that.)

But if you can connect with people who know how to write well in English, you can see how it is "in real life" -- how people express themselves, how the rhythm of the language works, how the idiomatic expressions are formed.

If possible, get a native speaker to read your post ... and correct your text ... and show you what the mistakes are and how it should be done instead. It can be an invaluable learning experience if you can do this and if you pay attention and learn.

I also see excellent writers from India and other countries in the far East -- so I know it's possible. It's not expecting "too much" for anyone to improve. I know English is a tough and confusing language, but you're using it -- learning to write in it -- for good reasons. Make your effort worthwhile!

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this is such a well-written and thoughtful reply. I really appreciate that you took out time to share your thoughts. I don't know where you are from but if you have followed the Man Booker prize winners across the years, you will see Indian writings are regulars in the long list an short list and Indians have won the award many times. It means that it's possible to write good English even if you are not a native speaker, all you need to do is put in some real effort :)

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