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Nabeel · 04-20-2015, 02:50 PM

Kasper: I really feel sorry for this flood of grammatical criticism you've had. It can't be encouraging. But you have to take these points and learn from them.

There are writers who can't write grammatically but who can still be very effective and powerful: they are usually native speakers, with a clear sense of the rhythm of the langage.

There are also people like Conrad, whose grasp of English grammar was not perfect, but who had a very clear sense of what you could do with English.

But I think for most writers, mastering the language is an essential first step to expressing yourself.

04-20-2015, 02:50 PM	#12
Nabeel Zealot Posts: 147 Karma: 2747136 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Britain Device: Kobo Aura One	Kasper: I really feel sorry for this flood of grammatical criticism you've had. It can't be encouraging. But you have to take these points and learn from them. There are writers who can't write grammatically but who can still be very effective and powerful: they are usually native speakers, with a clear sense of the rhythm of the langage. There are also people like Conrad, whose grasp of English grammar was not perfect, but who had a very clear sense of what you could do with English. But I think for most writers, mastering the language is an essential first step to expressing yourself.