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[farla]

Proofreading a chapter of an OT story.

The fact that someone who isn't a native speaker has better spelling and grammar than most of the pokemon category scares me a great deal.

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[farla.livejournal.com]

I don't know about other English-speaking places, but I do know that spelling and grammar are no longer taught where I live, and so the teachers can't grade their students off for it. Although kids my age were given rudimentary lessons in spelling (ended by fourth grade) and grammar (short lessons in fifth and seventh grade), so we can still be graded on it, I think the maximum amount I can lose for that on an AP English essay is five or ten points, and I'm pretty sure all my history teacher can legally do is write in the margins that I made a mistake. (Ironically, the poor ESL kids get graded on grammar and spelling.)