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As a non-native english speaker trained in academia, I'm pretty sure that sometimes my comments must come out like that. I'm not doing it on purpose, it's just
by kilburn 9y ago
As a non-native english speaker trained in academia, I'm pretty sure that sometimes my comments must come out like that.
I'm not doing it on purpose, it's just that I don't know better!
I suspect there are many others in my situation here, specially those whose native language is of latin origin, because latin-based words are considered more formal/academic in english, yet they're much easier for us to learn!
Just keep that in mind when judging other's comments please ;)
- _tulpa 9y agoNon native english usually just has a few weird word choices as opposed to a really formal and replacing common words with much less common ones that mean roughly the same thing. I'm talking about comments that my younger self would have written when I thought I would add weight to my argument by trying to sound smarter (so I'd be a hypocrite to judge comments harshly anyway).