#ESL problems
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Why can't colloquailisms be translated 1:1 with it still carrying the exact same feeling
#like yes technically 'niet voor herhaling vatbaar' can be translated to 'not really to be repeated'#but that second one sounds so much harsher than the first one#the first one is so casual#second is just plain rude#esl problems#writing
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How the hell am i supposed to know how to pronounce "thesaurus"
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I changed quite a lot in the post about two Soviet games because it was misleading re: lotto game.
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writing a novel in english when it’s not your first language fuels my anxiety like nothing else, like am i even using the correct grammar here??? why is my vocabulary so limited??? no publishing company in my country will accept this because they don’t accept english books??? do i need a translator or just a really good therapist??? will anyone ever understand my protagonist’s nuanced emotions, or am i just screaming into the void???
#writing#writeblr#writers on tumblr#writers#writer#writing community#creative writing#writerblr#writer things#writers block#writers life#writers and poets#writerscommunity#ao3 writer#writer stuff#writing funny#on writing#write#writing meme#writing memes#writing struggles#writing problems#writing humor#writer problems#writing is hard#esl#english#language learning
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#ok but fr marking undergrad essays is such a rollercoaster#i gave two very high marks today and was genuinely impressed and then the next three i marked were practically incoherent#one just copy and pasted their intro instead of writing a conclusion. like it's verbatim the same paragraph#i dont mark down for minor grammar and syntax errors because there's a high rate of ESL students...#... but some of the papers from native english speakers have me more concerned about functional illiteracy than I've ever been#these are 19-20yos in a humanities field at a top university! even the highest scoring essay had basic basic grammar errors and vocab misuse#at least i could tell what the student was trying to say there but some of the others...#if your punctuation and spelling and syntax are all so bad that i literally cant tell what you're trying to say there is a serious problem#even setting aside how many errors like these there were there's the flip side of the issue: actually writing an essay#the last one i marked yesterday had no structure or thesis or secondary sources#everything between the intro and conclusion was the same claim phrased in different ways with some irrelevant non sequitur quotes thrown in#no analysis other than the words 'analysis of this shows' which is *gasp* not a substitute for analysis#OH AND OMG#one made a direct claim about a figure's political stance and attached a footnote. i went to see what the student's source was.#the footnote literally said something like 'i know i should have a source here but it's only context and i don't want to waste my word count#like what???? do you think claims about relevant context don't need evidence??? and the audacity to not give a citation...#... and claim it's because it would take too many words away from your main argument??#just providing the actual citation for the claim would have been 3-5 words max but the footnote about not having room was 30 words#kid do you think i can't tell that you dont have that citation? do you think anyone's buying that you didn't include it to save space?#it's the very first footnote and most of the others are full-length bibliography entries jammed into the footnotes (which we don't require)#so either you were 'worried about space' at the first footnote then changed your mind as you wasted 250 words on unnecessary formatting#or you were over the word limit and were like 'gotta cut something!' and the only footnote you 'simplified for space' was a short basic one#^assuming i believed you. which i dont. because why would you think that would fool anyone.#i still have half the essays left. im tired and so disappointed in how little we're told we should expect from them
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How the fuck does this even happen...
There are a number of languages you can search for works in on AO3, including Eald Eanglisc of all things, but the one language on there that really throws me for a loop is...American Sign Language.
Like, is there even a video option on AO3 for this to be possible?
I once picked a really big fanfic collection to search for ASL fics in and the only one that categorized as ASL was *written* in English. No videofile too be seen.
The most you can do in ASL in writing is write English words with ASL syntax. But that's still not ASL. ASL does not have a written alphabet or syllabary.
Genuinely bewildered about how this came about. Can people just post something and write in an "other" language and AO3 just adds that language to the list of languages they have fics written in?
I can't think of any other way that this might've happened, and as much as I adore AO3, this is pretty problematic.
#Archive of Our Own#fanfiction in foreign languages#American Sign Language#ASL DOES NOT HAVE A WRITTEN FORM#Don't get me wrong there are a few sign languages that *do* have written forms#Nicaraguan Sign Language is the only one I'm personally aware of#But it's very unusual#and probably another reason why NSL is such a standout language beyond the more consistently talked of reasons#Someone please point out how to write to OTW to point out how massively problematic and recursively wrong this is#deaf problems#because apparently pointing out to international orgs that you can't write in ASL is something we have to deal with#sorry I've been aware of this for a while#and just got annoyed and irritated enough about it tonight to post about it#ESL problems? I guess?#(ESL being English as a Second Language tbc)#(the sign language predominantly used in Britain is called British Sign Language not English Sign Language)#I'm gonna go cuddle my cat now.
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they are so cute when they are teens ... 🥹
#vile coke#oc; michael düwall#oc; dani summers#they didn't go to the same school tho#michael was in ESL classes during his time in school#he was quite shy and quiet and minded his business#but still made a couple friends#dani was a bit of a problem child#she was a bit of a bully in school bc she was picked on herself so she started projecting as defense#and she was severely closeted and repressed at the time#but she's charismatic and fun to be around#and she grows out of it but she can still get mean if she needs to#I mean it's just a skill necessary for being a retail employee LMAO#dani's mean to nice pipeline#and michael's nice to mean to polite pipeline#so funny to me#me yapping to myself
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i mean it in the best way possible (to u) but wow from what u've been posting ur uni friends sound like fucking cunts. hope it gets better :/
haha well, yeah no i agree with you
the thing is it's not really uni friends. those just either don't reply or reply that they're busy when it's about something esle than school, they're clear with us that they have their own friend groups they value more and outside of the university setting we don't really keep in touch too much. i mean i tried befriending one girl but it eventually backfired at me so i decided it's not worth to spend my time and health on that
the thing that's happening lately is with people i have known before for ~5 years out of which one of them is my rommate. and only around january/february this year it started becoming clear what we stand on. that's probably why the whole thing is so frustrating to me now, especially that situationship with my roommate/best friend that we ended up in. it's such a complicated and multilayered situation at this point that it's just simply more tiring than upsetting
but in any case thanks for nice words, i hope it gets better too
#the psychologist lady im meeting for personalized development exercises told me the same actually#she was like okay you're upset that they don't value you as much but do you really want to stay friends with people like who don't#the problem is that it's not that easy because i don't have anyone esle here. like at all#so my takeaway from that was that since at least when it's all good i have people around me then it's better than having no one no matter#whether it's good or bad#and when it's bad i can always type down all my annoyance into the void that is my tungle dot com blog#it's not the same as having a friend to talk about it with but it's not that awful option either i guess lol#ive been working on myself a lot this semester so im now viewing it all in a different light than those 6 months ago#and im really starting to thing that the fault for how im feeling in all on this doesn't really lie entirely on my side#because they really could've just been better friends. and people in general i suppose#but i still deeply care about them and that's probably why it's so frustrating#think* not thing goddammit autocorrect
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My grammatical errors are invisible during my countless proof-readings.
And then, after publication, they spring up like children emerging from their hiding place after winning a game of hide-and-seek! 😅
#The worst thing is that lots of people have seen them before me!#writing#writer problems#fanfic writer#esl writer
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The weird ways 15-to-25-year-old fiction writers use the English language because they don't read OEL books; they learn plot/scene structure from episodic serial narratives that are drawn out for years (usually not purely text-based) and/or require digging through auxiliary materials to piece together important details; learn words and phrases from video content without seeing how they're spelled/formatted in text......... This Will Have Consequences.
#it's gotten much harder to identify who is and is not a 'native english speaker' because kids in non-anglophone countries spend#so much time engaging with english-language stuff online and passing their own permutations on phrases/words on to the kids who#speak english to the people around them offline#so i'm seeing sentence structure that i used to associate specifically with japanese/korean esl people from like. racist kids in texas#which is fine. 'who give a shit.' as they say#but i feel 900 years old when i try to read fanfic for stuff that's popular among the Youths#it's unavoidable and not a problem in itself but i worry that a lot of fucked-up arguments are being sparked by#rapid-linguistic-drift-induced misunderstandings
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Damn, I wasn't posting in English for just a few days, and it feels like my language skills are already deteriorating.
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Feeling.. kinda extremely dejected right now. I was genuinely on a roll with my comic, and I could see it all come together and
And then I had to write out the dialogue.
I genuinely don’t even see the point in continuing right now. My writing skills are dogshit and I feel like I’m pretty much permanently crippled because English isn’t my first language. I have no narrative voice, no local idioms or slang or flavor i can pull from. Instead, everything i write has this air of just, shitty generic standard ESL English
I have SO MUCH faith in this story, but knowing I lack one of the key skills to bring it to life is just.. fuck this sucks
#writing#writers block#esl things#and no writing in my native language and translating wouldn’t help#it would just cause even more problems
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Vent under the cut and in the tags
Sometimes it feels like it's never gonna be ok. And I don't know what to do.
#vent#sorry im just#why did my family feel the need to traumatize me?#and how can i possibly move past that betrayal?#like at the end of the day i still love my family. right.#and the worst part is they seem to know exactly what they did and how it impacted me#i couldnt see it until 2 years after i moved out#i just. like i wish i hadnt had to live in so much pain#and now any time i remember anything its wrapped in pain and i hate remembering stuff because of it#which is a problem because my memory is really good and i remember things constantly#idunno. i just want it to stop#i dont even think an apology from my family will do anything at this point because the shit already happened#i already lost my formative years to trauma and now. i just gotta deal with it.#but surprise! nobody ever taught me how to deal with this shit#so hefe i am avoiding it as usual#it just makes it worse but i dont know what esle i could possibly do#anyways sorry rant over#feel free to reply but dont reblog thx ✌️
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For the send-a-topic thing: how do you like the trope of "the moment whumpee breaks"?
Thank you for the ask! From this ask game.
Oh boy, how to answer that.
In one way - :D
If I consider the term as giving up, rock bottom, something like that. The moment whumpee begs, even though they swore to themselves they’d never. The moment they give up the last shred of hope they’d held onto and stop fighting. The moment they know death is the only thing that’s waiting for them.
The thing is - for me, that’s a moment. Ok, fine, perhaps a longer moment. But I am only writing (and mostly interested in reading) happy ends, and there will be a recovery, and it will be causing more tooth decay than the rock candy I am snacking on right now.
And I’ve seen lots of posts that talk about “broken” whumpees, as some permanent thing. They will do anything for Whumper. They will never be able to comprehend the world. They will forever remain conditioned, thinking they’re a pet, and so on.
And yeah, I do not like that at all - :(((
(On another note, I don’t really read that genre often, but I also do not like it if it’s used in spy/military/etc settings as “the torture worked and whumpee finally told the truth/gave them everything they wanted” - that’s not how it works.)
#salad-ask#peasant-notsopleasant#It's me I'm the OC#Similarly I've seen a lot of backlash against the word 'broken' for that reason#and might be my esl brain but I've never had a problem with the word#it's the intend behind it that counts
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This!! And twice as bad when you're ESL and get asked to translate it, too🙈
the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.
if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.
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If I don't get these facebook posts scheduled today I am reporting myself to the police.
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