A strangely worded Asimov rejection

Fresie · May 13, 2014

Hi guys,

A friend of mine has received a rejection from Asimov that we both find a little strange. Has any of you received the following:

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The story isn't that badly written at all. I'm a bit puzzled. What do you think? I'm posting [Mod note: link broken] - please tell us what they might mean by 'insufficient language treatment". Thank you very much!

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Calla Lily · May 13, 2014

It looks like one of their standard form Rs to me.

Fresie · May 13, 2014

Fresie said:
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Yes, I'm sorry, my mistake, won't do it again

kenpochick · May 13, 2014

It doesn't look anything like the standard rejection letter listed here. http://www.rejectionwiki.com/index.php?title=Asimov's

Weird language. I would assume that the writing had a lot of technical and grammatical errors?

Fresie · May 13, 2014

Thank you, kenpochick. That's the whole problem, it hadn't. The only explanation I could think of is that the opening of the story is written in a little boy's POV so the language is rather simplistic but what do you expect from a little boy's POV? The language gets more complex and literary as the story evolves and the boy grows, but I don't think anyone read past the first couple of paragraphs, and why would they? They probably just thought that the story was written by a little boy.

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popgun62 · May 13, 2014

It looks suspiciously like spam. I would check with Asimov personally and see if they actually sent it.

kenpochick · May 13, 2014

Hmm...maybe they did read only a couple of sentences and thought the whole story was written like that.

Old Hack · May 13, 2014

The original wording of that rejection letter was very strange. Did you post it exactly as it read, or did you reword it, Fresie? Because if that was exactly what they wrote to your friend, I suspect it didn't come from Asimov's.

A strangely worded Asimov rejection

Fresie

She Who Runs The Waves

Calla Lily

On hiatus

Fresie

She Who Runs The Waves

kenpochick

I should be writing, not on AW.:-)

Fresie

She Who Runs The Waves

popgun62

Keeper of the pace.

kenpochick

I should be writing, not on AW.:-)

Old Hack

Such a nasty woman