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<blockquote data-quote="Thotas" data-source="post: 2763963" data-attributes="member: 18974">I very much lean toward all the things Henry said early on in this thread.&nbsp; I appreciate it when writers try to do it correctly, though I know even professional writers have professional editors to catch their spelling, grammer and idiomatic errors -- and goofs still come through. Speaking of which, my Dungeon magazine just came in the mail on Friday.&nbsp; Monte! Eric! Page 94! That's not what &quot;begging the question&quot; means! ...&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> &nbsp;What it really all comes down to, for me, is this: to the degree a poster doesn't have enough on the ball to communicate an idea effectively, the odds increase geometricly that they don't have enough on the ball for it to be worth my while to decipher the cryptogram.&nbsp; Non-native speakers are making efforts and passing through a necessary stage in development of a skill, so they are exempted.&nbsp; However, if you can't understand the message, communication has still failed.&nbsp; Polite and constructive questions and corrections can be helpful to the effort of immediate exchange and the overall learning process.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thotas, post: 2763963, member: 18974"] I very much lean toward all the things Henry said early on in this thread. I appreciate it when writers try to do it correctly, though I know even professional writers have professional editors to catch their spelling, grammer and idiomatic errors -- and goofs still come through. Speaking of which, my Dungeon magazine just came in the mail on Friday. Monte! Eric! Page 94! That's not what "begging the question" means! ... ;) What it really all comes down to, for me, is this: to the degree a poster doesn't have enough on the ball to communicate an idea effectively, the odds increase geometricly that they don't have enough on the ball for it to be worth my while to decipher the cryptogram. Non-native speakers are making efforts and passing through a necessary stage in development of a skill, so they are exempted. However, if you can't understand the message, communication has still failed. Polite and constructive questions and corrections can be helpful to the effort of immediate exchange and the overall learning process. [/QUOTE]

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