"Hetalia fandom is pretty good about it, but as someone who's not a native speaker everytime I see someone on LJ go "lol learn to write, noob"
Though I stand for politeness in making these critiques, I'm all for making them nonetheless. I'm not a native English speaker, and if people hadn't gone "huh, wait, what...?" at my "best efforts" I wouldn't be capable of communicating, period.
"well, you try to write in german/french/italian/spanish whatever and not make a single mistake"
Because you're not supposed to expect that. See, on an English community, you're expected to try to talk in a passable level of ENGLISH if you want to communicate, at least if you want to integrate. Mistakes happen, this is not uncommon, but there's a way of telling between someone who is trying and someone who isn't. Besides that, one's other language skills are irrelevant at the time. Now, if the person this was directed to were to go to a Spanish, German, French or Italian community, and would fail at the language dominating the arena... ahh, now THERE you would have something of a moral authority to poke them a bit.
Re: language raaant
Though I stand for politeness in making these critiques, I'm all for making them nonetheless. I'm not a native English speaker, and if people hadn't gone "huh, wait, what...?" at my "best efforts" I wouldn't be capable of communicating, period.
"well, you try to write in german/french/italian/spanish whatever and not make a single mistake"
Because you're not supposed to expect that. See, on an English community, you're expected to try to talk in a passable level of ENGLISH if you want to communicate, at least if you want to integrate. Mistakes happen, this is not uncommon, but there's a way of telling between someone who is trying and someone who isn't. Besides that, one's other language skills are irrelevant at the time. Now, if the person this was directed to were to go to a Spanish, German, French or Italian community, and would fail at the language dominating the arena... ahh, now THERE you would have something of a moral authority to poke them a bit.