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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 3953866" data-attributes="member: 16069">Apologies LB.*Ploink.... [perhaps “…”] wuups... [Onomatopoeia- I’ll allow the previous spellings, traditionalists may prefer “Plonk”, however “Ploink” has a meatier sound to it, like a Polish sausage. Although I’m really not sure about “wuups”, is that supposed to be “whoops”, an exclamation of surprise, or just an additional sound effect, regardless- let’s press on.] (sound of a person being shot with seat and all out of a lurking corner)[“shot with seat and all”, now that really is odd, maybe there’s a comma missing- or maybe the phrase, “catapulted, seat and all, out of…” sounds better, you decide.]Very nice read, it took me about a steady week and a half [week-and-a-half, sometimes] to get to [“to”, is superfluous- “to get this far” seems adequate.] this far...Although your writing style is recommendable [“recommendable”, seems churlish, and clunky, nevertheless we press on] i [“I”] do want to add [“do want to add”, clunky again] that i [“I”] see way to [“too”] many silly spelling mistakes in your posts, LB.One [“Two”] example [“examples”]:"This time it did even bother to start pulling her,"this sentence is [replace with “The above from”] from Chapter 316, [surely a full stop]Unfortunately for it that opened it to another attack from Marcus, [quotation marks please]Chapter 317 (i [“I”] think there should be a comma behind [for “behind” read “after”, followed by “the”] first it. [“it” should be in quotation marks, as should the original quotes]) [and why in brackets?]I am not trying to bring down your quality [“I am not trying to bring down your quality”, badly phrased, confused even.] nor the praise you've been given [see previous], but seeing how most readers take your writing as high quality [see previous, again] because, [why the comma?] such 'silly' spelling mistakes should not be made [clunky again] imo, [possibly a full stop?]Do continue the tread [“thread”, I bet you were up all night worrying about whether to pack it all in LB?], as to me it is very nice to read [“as to me it is very nice to read”,  sounds like a Borat quotation.], and i [“I”] compare it [or “it compares favourably with”, or, “to”; or better still, “it’s as good as”] to Shemeska, and Jon Potters [“Potter’s”] threads, which i [“I”] like equally well [“equally well”, sorry LOL, I particularly like the “welly-well” sound of the last phrase- expertly done].*Zwipp.... [“…”, ellipsis travel in threes, I promise] (jumps into the lurking corner again... [like this]) [full stop]Sorry Burningspear, and undoubtedly somebody will post in picking up my mistakes, but the English language is a cumbersome, often burdensome, tool- you should see the essays I have to mark, they make your post look… no, I can’t bring myself to say it.Merry Christmas.LazyBones please don’t give up.While I’m at it-Seemingly i [“I”] am a [“an”] Orange Dragon...o whell [“well”], burn baby burn "disko" [“disco”] inferno, ouch ouch ouch ayeeeee [excellent onomatopoeia, keep up the good work.]Sorry again, my bad [intentional].</blockquote>

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