I am also one of these non-native speakers of English.
But if I don't know a word, I reach for one of these fine
inventions called dictionary. I know I am a really bad speller
but I will never ask for spellchecking, because I can do
that job with my spell-checker. Therefore, a <spellchecking>
button would actually mean Heya! I was too lazzy to do
speelchecking, please could you do it for me? No, I do not
want to ask for such a feature.
While spellchecking and looking up words I don't know, can
be done easily by myself, I feel quit uneasy when it comes
to word usage, grammar, wordorder, etc.
pp. . Especially if I was going to write longer prose like
a tutorial or book review which also will have a wider
audience than this little node, it would be nice if there
were some volonteer editors who could check my writings.
And yes, like many non native speakers of English I feel
quit ashamed for my bad English. (Especially if fellow
countymen of mine look at me from behind. Definitly a
psychological problem for many of us non native speakers.)
Hanamaki
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like ichimunki and doubtless many others, I'd be more than delighted to give feedback when wanted on prose style and grammar, just in the same way as it's always a pleasure to answer somebody's uncertainty about perl (not that I'm often in a position to do that - I probably am actually more use with English). I'd suggest anyone who would welcome that kind of input put something like "always glad to get feedback on my Egnlish" in the sig.
{But PLEASE don't feel "ashamed" - (A) if you get your meaning across (as you do) then you have succeeded; and (B) most native English-speakers (at least Brits and Americans) are LOUSY at other languages - because everybody else speaks our language so well, we get to be very lazy.}
§ George Sherston
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