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<blockquote data-quote="Harmon" data-source="post: 2763936" data-attributes="member: 24357">This is something that I don't really &quot;get.&quot;I have been working at bettering my English skills sense- well forever&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :o"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /> .&nbsp; When I got out of high school I had not ever red a book larger then say thirty pages.&nbsp; I have no idea regarding the difference in verbs, nouns, etc.&nbsp; When to use a ; in a sentence, I have not a clue.&nbsp; Largely I am self-taught in writing, and spend hours trying to get what I write to just sound right in my head (fwiw- I have over 350 MB of material that I have written and refuse to let others read).&nbsp; I have been in a half dozen English classes sense HS and never been able to qualify for English 1A on that STARR test (its an English evaluation test).Now before anyone mentions &quot;learning disabilities&quot; yes I have one, and I have been fighting against it for years.When people come in nit picking my writing it does nothing for me- it just frustrates and belittles, which helps not at all.&nbsp; Some of you flew through high school and college, never thinking about how quickly you read or write, or how well you comprehend what you have read. I have to read something three to six times before it sticks, and even then well its not always there. So when you belittle someone for their writing by pointing out that they missed a comma on a BB you really aren't helping you are just making yourself appear superior.&nbsp; You have no clue about the struggles that some of us have gone through to be able to write a sentence or even post on a BB in a fashion that allows us to feel that we are writing well enough to be understood.Thanks for reading this far, hope you understood what I wrote and understand that I feel you are missing other’s POV.&nbsp; Please don't feel this is an attack or an excuse, just a position that some people have to struggle from.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harmon, post: 2763936, member: 24357"] This is something that I don't really "get." I have been working at bettering my English skills sense- well forever :o . When I got out of high school I had not ever red a book larger then say thirty pages. I have no idea regarding the difference in verbs, nouns, etc. When to use a ; in a sentence, I have not a clue. Largely I am self-taught in writing, and spend hours trying to get what I write to just sound right in my head (fwiw- I have over 350 MB of material that I have written and refuse to let others read). I have been in a half dozen English classes sense HS and never been able to qualify for English 1A on that STARR test (its an English evaluation test). Now before anyone mentions "learning disabilities" yes I have one, and I have been fighting against it for years. When people come in nit picking my writing it does nothing for me- it just frustrates and belittles, which helps not at all. Some of you flew through high school and college, never thinking about how quickly you read or write, or how well you comprehend what you have read. I have to read something three to six times before it sticks, and even then well its not always there. So when you belittle someone for their writing by pointing out that they missed a comma on a BB you really aren't helping you are just making yourself appear superior. You have no clue about the struggles that some of us have gone through to be able to write a sentence or even post on a BB in a fashion that allows us to feel that we are writing well enough to be understood. Thanks for reading this far, hope you understood what I wrote and understand that I feel you are missing other’s POV. Please don't feel this is an attack or an excuse, just a position that some people have to struggle from. [/QUOTE]

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