I decided to ‘publish’ an essay on Fiona Apple I’ve written for a university course in English writing. You can get it here, in .doc and .odt format.
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Congratulations. Remarkable fluency and idiomatic writing for a second language. One would have to read very carefully to find any clues that this was not a native speaker. None of the usual clues are there; possibly one might be able to find some limitation of vocabulary if it were a longer passage - this is the usual higher level clue.
Have you read Conrad? He did it, writing in a second language, at the highest level, where all you can really say is that it is a distinctive voice, perhaps a bit too distinctive to be really native.
But it is hard to say what if anything makes Conrad more distinctive or less native than Hardy.
Comment by anon — June 23, 2006 @ 7:49 pm
Hey, thanks for the compliments. I did get the highest grade for the course, so there’s a reason I chose to publish this one online :).
Comment by Administrator — June 23, 2006 @ 9:11 pm