Oh hey guys

[petronia]

If any of you have excellent grammar, spelling and syntax and would like to join the bb_shousetsu beta reader pool, now is definitely the time.

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[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I could have done that kind of editing once, but then livejournal came along. ^^ Every now and then I'll come across some comment I made way back when and I'll just stare at it, amazed at the number of trifling grammatical details I used to point out. These days those same mistakes are invisible.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

O don't say that, I'm trying to maintain some standards here. *weepz*

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

Tilling at windmills! XD No wait, here's a better one: in the wilds of The Internet, there is a small well-tended garden. The flowers in the middle grow beautifully, only needing a slight trim now and then. But editors are forever fighting back the weeds on the periphery.

My pruning sheers are rusty.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

1. It's tilting, not tilling.
2. That metaphor would work better if I said that out in the wilds, it rains (acid rain!), while here in the garden, the sun always shines.

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Haha, yes, my grammar has also gone to hell these days. (BTW, is syntax separate from grammar? I forget from my linguistics classes.) I actually blame chatting. Also Japanese study, which has messed with my brain. >_<

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I dunno, the furthest I got in formal language instruction was tenth grade English. No, wait! It was fourth-semester French. (It's odd to hear you say that Japanese has weakened your grammar, when foreign-language study is the way most of the people I know learned the few rules we do know. But I guess Japanese is just Special like that.) If I could re-do college, I would definitely find the time for an intro-level linguistics course and at least one intro-level macroeconomics course.

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

I mean, it has improved my knowledge of grammatical terms, but knowing theory is different from practice. What I mean is that my reading lots of Japanese text (well, not lots by the standards of English text reading; by those standards I've read hardly anything, and also it's not really study because all I've been doing is reading, not trying to memorize vocab and half skipping over things I cannot parse grammatically) has made my brain half swim recently.