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mari4212So, as I was reading over the votes today, I came across this comment:
I was tempted to squib because I thought Ravenclaw for you, but all the typos and the poor proofreading ruled out Ravenclaw. But I suppose I can see Hufflepuff in you.
I was incredibly confused. One, because I wrote the whole thing out in Word, which, despite its failings, is pretty good at catching spelling and simple grammar mistakes. Two, I read through this thing several times, and then had several people look through it before I posted it.
Now, I'm willing to admit that my Ron answer was not the clearest ever written. I was trying to be evenhanded about the fact that he annoys me. And the simple truth is that I care about him enough for him to irk me because he is a real person to me. He's a real person because he his so well-rounded. So I'll admit that if you don't know me well enough to understand how my brain works, that answer doesn't always make much sense. So if you claim I need better proofreading on that answer, then I'll agree with you. I could have been clearer. But the rest is fairly well written,in my opinion, so I dislike being told that my entire survey is poorly edited.
And where are the typos you claim to see? I've reread the entire application, and the only things I can think of are two places where I could have used a hyphen and didn't. But the words don't require a hyphen, and it's simpler without them. I don't have any obvious spelling errors, words aren't slurred together, and no one else has mentioned anything about this. I would have expected someone else to at this point if they were obvious enough for you to have seen and changed your vote because of them.
And I'm slightly insulted on behalf of Hufflepuff. If I don't deserve Ravenclaw because of flaws, but you feel you can place me into Hufflepuff regardless of those flaws, what does that say about your ideas about the relative values of those houses? I mean, I know that's not what you meant to imply, but that was my understanding, given the way you phrased it.
Okay, can someone, anyone, point out what typos I made?
And if the person who wrote that comment is reading this entry, I did not mean for this to sound accusatory, but I don't like making avoidable mistakes, and when I hear about them I want to correct them immediately. I don't like making the same mistake twice, and it's harder to avoid the mistakes if you don't know what they are.
I was tempted to squib because I thought Ravenclaw for you, but all the typos and the poor proofreading ruled out Ravenclaw. But I suppose I can see Hufflepuff in you.
I was incredibly confused. One, because I wrote the whole thing out in Word, which, despite its failings, is pretty good at catching spelling and simple grammar mistakes. Two, I read through this thing several times, and then had several people look through it before I posted it.
Now, I'm willing to admit that my Ron answer was not the clearest ever written. I was trying to be evenhanded about the fact that he annoys me. And the simple truth is that I care about him enough for him to irk me because he is a real person to me. He's a real person because he his so well-rounded. So I'll admit that if you don't know me well enough to understand how my brain works, that answer doesn't always make much sense. So if you claim I need better proofreading on that answer, then I'll agree with you. I could have been clearer. But the rest is fairly well written,in my opinion, so I dislike being told that my entire survey is poorly edited.
And where are the typos you claim to see? I've reread the entire application, and the only things I can think of are two places where I could have used a hyphen and didn't. But the words don't require a hyphen, and it's simpler without them. I don't have any obvious spelling errors, words aren't slurred together, and no one else has mentioned anything about this. I would have expected someone else to at this point if they were obvious enough for you to have seen and changed your vote because of them.
And I'm slightly insulted on behalf of Hufflepuff. If I don't deserve Ravenclaw because of flaws, but you feel you can place me into Hufflepuff regardless of those flaws, what does that say about your ideas about the relative values of those houses? I mean, I know that's not what you meant to imply, but that was my understanding, given the way you phrased it.
Okay, can someone, anyone, point out what typos I made?
And if the person who wrote that comment is reading this entry, I did not mean for this to sound accusatory, but I don't like making avoidable mistakes, and when I hear about them I want to correct them immediately. I don't like making the same mistake twice, and it's harder to avoid the mistakes if you don't know what they are.
