The post that was quoted here has been removedI have noted in the notes:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s539/sh/c8371078-44df-40a7-aee2-393d68a79cf5/cba6ba8ba8032690fca4ed1fed2c350b
I would also like everyone to take note of this:
Duchess64, who claims to be a better writer than many native speakers of English, and routinely pats herself on the back about this fact, has used the patented 'Note' phrase 8 times in 7 posts; the posts range from post #4,338,035 to 4,338,083.
I would not be surprised that, with a tish bit more searching, we would find even more posts by her in between these two points where we are told to 'note' something.
It is certainly peculiar for a person who brags about their English skills to mechanically & robotically repeat the same phrase with such frequency..!
I had initially thought this would be a silly little project where I might have to crack open my Evernote a couple times a day to make an additional entry, but the amount of times that you use this phrase is beyond anything I considered.
I wake up & sit at my desk and think I might have to spend a few minutes tracking down these posts only to find out that you've used this phrase half a dozen times on a single page in the same thread.
It's getting a tish bit ridiculous.
The post that was quoted here has been removedNative speakers in a forum have no troubles avoiding the asinine repetition of the same words & cliches over and over again, often in the exact same post.
This is something that thousands of websites and experts will tell you to avoid -- indeed, there's something wrong with you if you pretend that any qualified person would find your style here to not be problematic, perhaps even creepy in its monochromatic tone.
It's like a broken record.
I am sure you can avoid flagrant errors when you set your mind to it, Duchess, but that a native quality writer does not make.
17 Mar 21
The post that was quoted here has been removedOut of curiosity, would you on the same basis object to say, Arnold Schwarzenegger being referred to an an "Austrian-American"? After all, Austrians are ethnically German, despite the fact that after 1945 it was politically expedient for them to claim otherwise!