English is my native language and I was surprised to see that nightspring is comfortable with "unfortunate" and not "a shame"...though after thinking about it a bit, I realized it's because "unfortunate" is associated with luck, whereas "shame" is associated with blame.
I think your English is excellent, but people just aren't parsing your original post very closely. (Much like Casual Viewer Dude's understanding of Jack/Ianto, come to think of it.) You ARE blaming, but you're blaming the writing, and a number of the comment replies are not really focused on the question of the writing quality.
(And I can't bring myself to comment on anything else on this topic because I just keep getting mad at TPTB. They know they can get away with stringing us along on this sketchy portrayal of J/I because we're an under-served audience. Exploitive fuckers.)
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Date: 2008-05-14 03:33 pm (UTC)I think your English is excellent, but people just aren't parsing your original post very closely. (Much like Casual Viewer Dude's understanding of Jack/Ianto, come to think of it.) You ARE blaming, but you're blaming the writing, and a number of the comment replies are not really focused on the question of the writing quality.
(And I can't bring myself to comment on anything else on this topic because I just keep getting mad at TPTB. They know they can get away with stringing us along on this sketchy portrayal of J/I because we're an under-served audience. Exploitive fuckers.)