Cora Buhlert has posted a sobering article about the situation of the International writerI find it especially telling that fingers are pointed at some of these English as second language writers for errors when there are so many American writers whose grammar is, um, creative. ("I was laying in bed when I . . ." "As a writer, the publishing
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And while it's true that errors do show up . . . um, natives don't get a free pass here, either. English grammar is weird, and our spelling is best described as convoluted.
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edit: the article doesn't say anything about failed html tags, but I suspect they're pretty detrimental too. *g*
(also--I've never had trouble with the word "definite," but I have never before seen the word "finite" in it. I just remember it's two "i"s. huh.)
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