While some people don't like hearing it: It is also partly up to the author of the code to ensure that reviews are handled professionally. If you're fluent in

While some people don't like hearing it: It is also partly up to the author of the code to ensure that reviews are handled professionally. If you're fluent in English, there's a clear difference in the tone of the listed comment forms. If you're working with colleagues that may struggle a little with English, you can easily read to much into the tone of a code review. The reviewer may not mean to come of direct or even aggressive, but because they literally just translated directly from German or Finnish the tone will be way off. It's also up to the author of the code to assume good faith, and look beyond the language used. Try to be kind when reviewing the code of others, and assume that the reviewers is trying to help.