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by **littlebro** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:20 am

Indinera wrote:with 50 hours a day you would have my games in a perfect english totally complimenting the stories I write ( )

Your English has improved enormously over the years, so be proud of that, but, as with any language, it's the prepositions and some verbs which cause the problems (I speak from personal experience here! I speak 2 other languages and can read a couple more, and it's always the prepositions and some verb tenses which cause me grief). For example, you use "elude" (are you translating eviter?) which in context should almost always be "avoid", and occasionally "evade", but almost never "elude". It's probably the sort of thing that only a native English speaker would pick up.

by **Indinera** » Fri Apr 13, 2012 9:59 am

Thank you.
But that doesn't change a thing to the fact that most reviewers are still out there waiting to harpoon any and all my games because the english is not perfect. So basically unlike all the native devs out there (and they are MANY), I can't send my games for reviews... a shame because stuff like TBOL with its developed interaction and replay value would certainly do good if I had been born right. My fault, for being first and foremost a storyteller yet one burdened with a native language that is basically useless.

For example, you use "elude" (are you translating eviter?) which in context should almost always be "avoid", and occasionally "evade", but almost never "elude". It's probably the sort of thing that only a native English speaker would pick up.

This, and a million others. 50h/day would probably fix the problem and allow me to be finally rated fairly... just a dream, I'm afraid.