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Originally Posted by HarryT
An interesting point. Yes, I do think a blurb is a good "filter". Spelling or grammatical errors in a blurb are a sure sign of a bad writer. One only has to look at posts here on MR to see that (at a rough estimate) a good one third of people don't know how to use "its" and "it's" correctly, despite the reasonable assumption that, as a reading forum, members of this forum might be expected to be more literate than the population as a whole.
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I think that sometimes you also have to take into account that English might not be a person's first language though as well. I see it all the time in fanfiction. Sometimes it is laziness on the part of the poster I imagine but sometimes it's also a matter of them not knowing the correct word or tense of it simply because they aren't a native speaker of the language. That's one aspect of distance that the web erases I think. You're over in England and I'm here in the Mid-west U.S. and yet we can see what each other has posted within minutes (if not seconds) of it going up. So it's easier to forget that not everyone is fluent in English.