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Re: English Editing / Proof Reading| Stop sounding like an uneducated scammer!
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ranlo
on 23/07/2015, 08:29:36 UTC
Quote from: Vortex20000 on July 23, 2015, 08:07:08 AM
Quote from: ranlo on July 23, 2015, 07:05:17 AM
Quote from: Vortex20000 on July 23, 2015, 06:33:45 AM
Quote from: d0om on July 23, 2015, 06:28:09 AM
Quote from: ranlo on July 22, 2015, 05:16:52 PM
Quote from: DropboxSeller on July 22, 2015, 05:13:12 PM
You are not a native English speaker either Smiley.

write up -> write-up (correct form has a dash)
tell tale -> talletale (correct form is 1 word)

Don't try to get money by just using a free online proofreader.

Not to mention things like the improper use of ellipses. I found ~20 errors total just in his original post, which is painful to see for someone who supposedly has experience with proofreading and editing. This is the equivalent of someone claiming to be a professional mechanic, and then just trying to Google each issue because he has no idea what he's doing (and destroys your car in the process).

That's funny, I have 3 fans already! I wrote this on a whim (might want to check your reading comprehension) so I could submit and not forget about it. Good to see we have at least three scholars among us here. Can you please list out all twenty corrections? Do you have any sample essays I can read to help ascend to your level of English mastery? How can I be like you?  Roll Eyes

Go back to school Roll Eyes

100% this. Basically, what he's trying to say is "I'm applying for a job but I'm too lazy to even take a minute to post a proper application." He's probably one of those kids that go around with their pants sagging, wondering why nobody's going to hire them and saying "If I had the job, I'd actually dress properly. But since you ain't hired me yet, I ain't got a reason to make myself presentable, yo. Quit hatin'."

Hint: if he can't take a minute to proofread his OWN posts, there's no way in hell he's going to do it for someone else. He'll just submit error-ridden text and claim he was in a rush and did it "on a whim."

This actually sounds just like me when I first started out, a few years ago. I visited Freelancer and wrote one-liner applications for article writing jobs Wink

Oh and since you asked so nicely, d0om, here's a nice article with what someone thinks are the 35 best speeches ever made.

I like how he changed his OP a little, but still missed obvious things, like hyphenating "15-year-old." The sad part is that now he can't even claim he was just in a rush. This time he took the time to correct things, and still can't get it right. He's now proven that his original claim (that it was just a rush job) was false, and we were, in fact, correct.