Using english from now on
I recently joined a community. I was thinking of joining one or a discord server that’s centered around bearblog, possibly hoping to have others give feedbacks to my blog and to chat with others, appreciating what they wrote.
It begins on me reading this blog, until I finished reading “How to find your sleuth?” I thought wow that pretty much sums up most of what I was going through and what I was thinking of at that time.
After chatting with the person who wrote that post on discord I got invited to their server. I got an unexpectedly warm welcome there. It’s always kinda scary joining a new server, but at the same time I felt happy and excited.
After quite a short time there I did feel like I overlooked something big. There are people from many countries, not just USA, but also Germany, Portugal, Denmark, and other countries that I haven’t known yet, seems like all members there wrote their blog in English. Except me. As far as I know.
“Well, I could start to write in English, for sure not gonna use AI, but maybe using translators a little would be fine.” I thought, and that made me curious with how my blog would sound like. Brb translating.
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Oh, damn...
Oh god, it's not good. Do not let Godzilla find my blog, he would get a stroke.
Why is it terrible? I wrote like how I would talk in real life, am I a horrendous writer all this time?? Maybe I used too many casual words which translator often had problems with.
Guess I’m too harsh at judging myself. My standard for how blogs should be was probably on the roof because I read many very well-written posts for the past few years, while I always wrote the same way how I would speak in real life.
I did mention before an issue I have where I can easily speed-read other’s posts, and yet is struggling to speed-read my own. I do prefer to read books in English rather than in Indonesian, if given a choice. Perhaps that's why I'm not used to reading Indonesian books, and my own posts as well.
Starting with this one, I shall write in English so that others can easily read it, hopefully including myself. However, do please manage your expectations that it’s not gonna be easily read. There might be grammar mistakes here and there, but surely they’re at least tolerable. Hopefully.
I won't rewrite all previous posts to english. I'm content with it, also for it to be a memory oh how terrible I was before. Probably not even gonna bother checking it's translation, unless I wanna get a stroke (sudden loss of brain function). Pages on the other hand I will consider later.
That concludes my first post... at least in this language.