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you want to buy your saffron from people who don't speak english, trust me
by pazimzadeh 3y ago
you want to buy your saffron from people who don't speak english, trust me
- user_7832 3y agoSure, but I wouldn’t expect such a person to know to use a # for headings either.
- pazimzadeh 3y ago[flagged]
- curiousObject 3y agoGood comment, but you don’t need to say #2
- krageon 3y agoI think it's reasonable to invite people to reinvestigate their preconceived notions of what folks who don't speak english do and do not know. The original comment was essentially "well how would they know to use a # for a heading? I don't expect that from a non-english speaker", which is definitely a statement that should result in some introspection.
- user_7832 3y agoI think it’s quite unwarranted and very judgemental. I’m myself a non native English speaker and come from a country where the majority aren’t a native speaker.
- user_7832 3y agoTo clarify, the stereotypical person who'd be likely to be selling saffron is likely a trader/merchant who's been at it for decades. Such people are excellent at business but often struggle with technology (no offense meant, you don't need to be good at tech to be a good/nice person). I wouldn't except this kind of person to know what a # does for headings. (It's possible they asked some younger kid/nephew for help - again speaking from experience as I've seen this trend a lot as an Asian myself - and younger gens would likely know how to use a hashtag/pound, but younger gens are generally quite decent with English too. Again, this is in general - of course there are exceptions which this article appears to be.)
- user_7832 3y ago1 makes sense, but 2 is very unnecessary. I’m not a native speaker myself, and my main suspicion did not even involve humans writing this.