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Hi people,
I have been reading some notebooks lately and there is something what has highly paid my attention. As you know, this website has two kind of profiles: students and teachers. I can understand all of us try to make corrections in order to help the rest of users in a useful way, students included. But, sometimes I read unnecessary corrections, maybe we could call them "overcorrections", I mean, things which aren't wrong, however they are being corrected equally. In my opinion when someone decide to add another option or alternative, a new way to express a situation quoted in a story, essay, etcetera, it is always welcome. But such as an exercise of responsability, such as a way to keep secure the value of our corrections and avoid to create confusion, it would be great if we write some notes to explain that point of view in order to make difference between something which is wrong and need corrections, and something which can be accepted as a correct expression, despite you can provide new suggestions (to avoid confuse). Anyway, the regular practice here is to make good corrections and explanations, so this isn't a negative criticism but a written, random thought of a human being in this so spread community called "italki".
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Random thoughts
Hi people,I have been reading some notebooks lately and there is something what has highly paid my attention. (You would say ‘that has caught my attention.’ Something cannot pay YOUR attention. You can pay attention to something but something can pay your attention. ) As you know, this website has two kind of profiles: students and teachers. I can understand all of us try to make corrections in order to help the rest of (the) users in a useful way, students included. But, sometimes I read unnecessary corrections, maybe we could call them "overcorrections", I mean, things which aren't wrong, however they are being corrected equally (consider using “still”, ‘as well’ or ‘nevertheless’. Equally is not really the right word to use In this context ). In my opinion when someone decide(s) to add another option or alternative, a new way to express a situation quoted in a story, essay, etcetera, it is always welcome. But such as an exercise of responsability (Responsibility is how you spell it), such as a way to keep secure the value of our corrections and avoid to create (creating is the word not to create) confusion, it would be great if we write some notes to explain that point of view in order to make difference (the word is ‘differentiate’ not to make difference. When u say ‘make difference or make a difference’ it is usually meaning to change something for the better’ differentiate meets to decipher to tell the difference.) between something which is wrong and need corrections, and something which can be accepted as a correct expression, despite you can provide new suggestions (to avoid confuse (confusion is the word.. confuse is a verb confusion is a noun )). Anyway, the regular practice here is to make good corrections and explanations, so this isn't a negative criticism but a written, random thought of a human being in this so spread community called "italki".
:)
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