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wishfulclickingI hold all stories to the same standard so whether or not a writer's first language is English or not isn't important. Sure, I am impressed when I find out some of my favorite writers are multilingual but I don't start thinking their stories are inherently better, nor do I think their stories should automatically get a pass with unacknowledged errors either.
If an author says English isn't their first language, acknowledges there will be some errors like awkward wording, and posts their stories, I can choose not to read but if I do decide to read the story, I'm not going to spend a ton of time mentioning errors in the comments. I had my warning. This actually happened to me. There was an author in the Digimon fandom that posted a story that intrigued me but it had some really awkward parts, but the author stated from the beginning that they were typing the story as it came and they were aware of the errors. They were currently learning English and the story was in them and they wanted to tell it.
It was an interesting premise and I read through it, errors and all.
If an author says English isn't their first language, acknowledges there will be some errors like awkward wording, and posts their stories, I can choose not to read but if I do decide to read the story, I'm not going to spend a ton of time mentioning errors in the comments. I had my warning. This actually happened to me. There was an author in the Digimon fandom that posted a story that intrigued me but it had some really awkward parts, but the author stated from the beginning that they were typing the story as it came and they were aware of the errors. They were currently learning English and the story was in them and they wanted to tell it.
It was an interesting premise and I read through it, errors and all.
