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There’s a difference between quirky English and incomprehensible English. If someone has poor English but their point is understandable, there’s not much to com
by harles 2y ago
There’s a difference between quirky English and incomprehensible English. If someone has poor English but their point is understandable, there’s not much to complain about. This article however falls squarely in the bucket of poor English and possibly proofing inhibiting comprehension. If someone aspires to be a journalist in English as the author claims to be, communication and comprehensible English are critical. It’s not a nitpick - there are plenty of sections where it’s not clear what the author is trying to say like:
> Although iOS is better served with good apps, some Android exclusives are missing.
The broader point here is that this appears to be a very low quality/effort article, and so question was genuine: what am I missing? It clearly resonated with some folks.
- asadotzler 2y ago[flagged]
- harles 2y agoAnd name calling and personal insults belong here? It was a poorly written piece of self promotion. You’re welcome to disagree but your response is the least HN I’ve seen in a long time here.
- rpgbr 2y agoAuthor here. I’m not a native English speaker and don’t claim or aspire to be a “journalist in English”, I just translate stuff that I write in (quite good, honestly) Portuguese to a broader audience. Your comments were so rude that at first I thought to ignore, but then I decided I’d like to let you know. I’d rather write “incomprehensible English”* than being this mean on someone I don’t even know. * allegedly; everyone else seem to understand what I wrote.
- harles 2y agoYou can get angry and lash out as you are here or you can seek to improve. I’m sure Microsoft Word, Grammarly, or even ChatGPT would catch the vast majority of the mistakes. Not attempting to do any of those is a mark of low effort. That coupled with a lack of serious content made this a difficult read that offered little to no value.