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Originally Posted by Piper_
This sounds likely. It would explain why her "ear" for language is off key.
Her spelling and usage is off too, though. "Anyways" "your/you're" etc... Maybe she has some sort of learning disability.
I hate to see anyone dogpiled, but yeesh. She had so many opportunities to make lemonade, but chose to spit instead, and afaik, hasn't apologized, retracted, or anything.
If she had just thanked the reviewer and said she would seek an editor, she could have come through with some tolerant fans, even some willing to overlook her flaws until she got help. According to the blogger, the story itself wasn't bad.
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As someone with 8 learning disabilities (dyslexia and auditory discriminatioon being the biggies), I have learned to have all of my professional work proof read and the really important stuff (can we say dissertation) editted. I try and use spell check (not at option at this site with the way work blocks crap)for everything I do.
Why? Because I know that my spelling sucks and that my grammar is a bit screwy. If I want people to understand what I am saying I need to make sure people review my work for me.
When I taught, I gave my students the address, telephone number, and email address to the resource center. The folks there were paid to proof read papers for students and to walk the students through the mistakes that they found. I include the information in my syllabus, I made sure that they remember to go there before turning in papers, and I tried to point out that students who went there tended to see a huge improvement in their writing. The first paper was almost always a disaster. One student recommended that I use a purple pen for grading because all the red on his paper was just scary. The students who took the not so subtle hint, I would write "Go see the folks at the resource center for help editing your work" on many papers, saw a huge improvement in their grades.
The moral of this story is, learning disabilities or not, she should use a freaking editor. Most of us need editors because we miss things due to being too familiar with the work and because we are not perfect.