A lot of people have mentioned the convoluted writing style you're using, so I figure I'll try to help by pointing out what people are referring to here. Maybe this is beating a dead horse, but maybe you just don't see the connection between what you typed and what you thought. I've bolded, underlined, and changed to red the parts that are incomprehensible.
Well I have nothing to sell, trade, barter, not I am not a vendor. I honestly thought the Cigar look a lot fountain pen was a very cool idea, also the "art" in the photo was IMHO a very well done photo illustration.
So tell us if you personally Doc like the Pen, the art, the artist created?
Ok. Here we've got 58 words and a whole host of grammatical errors, misuse of punctuation, misuse of plural forms, random capitalization of non-proper nouns, and a double negative. I have to be honest, it would be hard for me to make this many mistakes in 58 words.
- There should be a comma after the opening "Well"
- I think you mean "nor" instead of not, but if that's the case you end up with a different double negative.
- If you change the first "not" to "and" the sentence makes sense.
- You've inverted your nouns when you say "the Cigar look a lot fountain pen" when what you mean is "the fountain pen look(s) a lot (like) a cigar"
- Should be looks instead of look.
- You need the above "like" between "a lot fountain pen" to make that make any sense.
- But now you trail off into a separate sentence where I'm not sure what you're saying. You could have just said "I honestly thought the fountain pen looked a lot like a cigar." But somehow you're combining that sentence with "was a very cool idea".
- Maybe you mean "I honestly thought a fountain pen that looks like a cigar was a very good idea," but based on your wording I have no idea if you think the fountain pen really looks like a cigar or if you just think the idea of a fountain pen that looks like a cigar is a cool idea in general, or if you think the execution of this particular fountain pen/cigar was particularly good. But if that's the case, that doesn't make sense either because you didn't originally post a picture of that particular fountain pen that looks like a cigar. Honestly I'm not sure what you're saying.
- The comma between "idea, also the "art" in the photo" is incorrect. This needs to be a semi-colon or a period. When you don't do that, it seems like this next idea might also be a part of the first double idea that I couldn't decipher exactly, making the next run on sentence even more confusing.
- Your best sentence is this last line, as that's the only part of your post that I can actually follow, although I'd add a period before a capitalized "Also" and I'd add a comma after.
I'll stop there. So in your 58 words, I'd have to fix at least 10 things to make it sound like English and even then I'd be nervous that I mischaracterized your thoughts.
This is why people are struggling with your posting. You keep hearing the same things over and over again because you're averaging 10 errors per 50 words. I work part-time in the fiction writing business, and the average after a work has been edited is one error per 50,000 words. And, I'm not trying to be mean, but posting frequency aside, you're spitting out a lot of words and we can only guess at what you're actually thinking.
The reason this place is so great is because we all spend time thinking about what we're saying before we say it, and then we review it to make sure other people will understand what we're saying too. We don't just spit out 58 unedited, unconnected, confusing words and hope people get it.
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