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I've started being a bit more serious about lang-8. It's interesting in how many ways you can say the same thing in Japanese. I've had 4 different people say I should of said x in y way.

For the sake of my interest and lack of understanding fully here's the sentence and a correction I'm interested about.

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Links are hidden from guests. Please register to be able to view these links. I understand that this means my vocabulary is not very strong. I'm not fully sure why it's a negative form of ある though. Wouldn't that mean I don't have a very weak vocabulary?
After some more thought, I might understand this fully. I believe it has the point of I don't really have any vocabulary, not that my vocabulary is bad.

This one makes a lot more sense to me, but I'm not sure if it's really okay to use a double は particle.
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Links are hidden from guests. Please register to be able to view these links. This makes a lot of sense. But the double は makes me feel like it's not a proper sentence, why is this considered okay?
I haven't been around for the past month or so, so I didn't even see this.

In case you still need help, you could say (and yes, this shows many ways one can say stuff):

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Links are hidden from guests. Please register to be able to view these links. Yeah and forget that original sentence. When something is bad you could just say ｘｙは悪いです. As for the double は, back in the day I was taught that that's sort of a no-no. Make the second は into a が.

I would also recommend reading this thread: http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp...l/q14100262284 (the explanation they give is that since goiryoku is an ability (力-ryoku), it should be measured via 高い/低い.

Man, my problem is that the more naturally certain things come in Japanese, the easier it is to forget the rules themselves. So I'm just saying stuff based on what "sounds correct" in my ears. I'm the worst teacher.