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veen  ·  3734 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Stephen King Teaches Writing

    You spend all your time reading proper English and you learn how it sounds, or looks.

I'm practically the first generation who grew up with the Internet (nerdy kid, got a dial-up connection when I was 10). So even though English is my second language, I've been reading, gaming and writing in English for over a decade now in part because of the Internet. English grammar is something I never really think about - I just intuitively know how it's supposed to be, without actually knowing the rules, simply because I've been exposed to it so much.