I disagree, I'm glad there are still people like Vaskez who care about writing normally and without spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
And obviously Black Baron cares about that too or he wouldn't practise his English. Of course you don't need to hold up non-native speakers to the same standards as you do native speakers, but if there's one thing I myself find unhelpful it's when people go "Oh your English is good enough as it is, very well done especially since it isn't your mother tongue". If I make mistakes I like to be told. There's a difference between deliberately picking on non-native speakers when they make random posts or giving criticism to someone who asks for it.
Edit: One thing that is annoying about criticism though is that when someone asks for it, he/she sometimes gets replies from people whose own English is less than perfect. When that leads someone learning the language to adopting mistakes for fact, that's a shame. And that's also why I'm not going to criticise your piece Black Baron, unless it is to point out obvious spelling mistakes or similar things that can be looked up (would have to read it first though... maybe in the morning
). Stylewise only a native speaker with a good command of the language can be of help. Not every speaker of a language is a GOOD speaker of it.
[ 05-24-2004, 05:40 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]