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11 years ago
So there's an artist that I find to be very hit or miss on FA that has recently decided to post a comic in German rather than English because people are correcting his grammar. I'm annoyed because the comic was one of the few reasons why I watched the artist.
I've done a bit of thinking on it, and I've decided to unwatch the artist. I'm positive that he doesn't deserve the shit he got for posting bad English in his comics, but on the other hand, he deserves to be called out for it. It's his art, after all, and if he can't be bothered to take five minutes to get a couple sentences correct, then I don't know.
How one speaks directly correlates to how one thinks. Having bad grammar directly reflects your own ability to think in that language! I forgive people with English as a second language for their grammar because they don't know the language.
But when it comes to art or writing (as in, stories and such), grammar does matter. Have you ever been reading a story and then came across a grammatical error? It breaks the flow. It's distracting. I cringe. There aren't excuses for that.
I've done a bit of thinking on it, and I've decided to unwatch the artist. I'm positive that he doesn't deserve the shit he got for posting bad English in his comics, but on the other hand, he deserves to be called out for it. It's his art, after all, and if he can't be bothered to take five minutes to get a couple sentences correct, then I don't know.
How one speaks directly correlates to how one thinks. Having bad grammar directly reflects your own ability to think in that language! I forgive people with English as a second language for their grammar because they don't know the language.
But when it comes to art or writing (as in, stories and such), grammar does matter. Have you ever been reading a story and then came across a grammatical error? It breaks the flow. It's distracting. I cringe. There aren't excuses for that.
If the points you made were true, that he is posting them in German because of people kept correcting his English grammar, that would lead me to believe German is his first language?
I dunno. But in the case that English is his first language, I can see your point. Improper grammar is irritating.
But if it comes to art submissions, I'd do everything in my power to get it right. A couple of lines per comic page isn't too difficult to get right.
It's a shame he didn't just take people's corrections and learn from those mistakes. But what can you do..
I'm sure the guy, being a good artist, has plenty of contacts and could have found someone to give pages a quick read-over. It'd take hardly any time and it would have made the piece oh so much more professional looking. Typos and bad grammar in comics take the sparkle out of them.
Were he to make a German version or if he had made the original in German, that would be another matter.