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Putting the disclaimer is still harmless. GP took some liberties with fixing grammar and wording in addition to formatting, on text from an obvious ESL speaker.
by keerthiko 4y ago
Putting the disclaimer is still harmless. GP took some liberties with fixing grammar and wording in addition to formatting, on text from an obvious ESL speaker. Of course, OP's post is plenty comprehensible grammatically for a competent english-speaker, despite the minor syntax issues here and there.
As a bilingual non-western national, I find the disclaimer respectful and appreciate it! FWIW, I would not have been offended per se, but would have been mildly annoyed without it.
- Markoff 4y agoFixing grammar could be annoying for sure (like you have nothing better to do, I worked with non-native speakers for 10+ years now and still find it astounding when some native speaker feels the urge to fix someone's grammar in online forums, which I would never do if the content is comprehensible), but adding paragraphs to unreadable block of text can't be even annoying, that's just common sense and everyone can agree Reddit/HN formatting is mess
- michaelcao 4y agoI agree that we need to keep the HN as simple as possible but it is quite difficult for me to find a way to break lines although i am a software developer in the past. This is an issue for sure.