I wonder if non-native English speakers that post a lot on HN might pick up the "pretentious tone" as part of their writing style, sort of by accident. In the

I wonder if non-native English speakers that post a lot on HN might pick up the "pretentious tone" as part of their writing style, sort of by accident. In the same way like "Reddit English" has its own idioms by now ("Thank you, kind stranger", etc) I'm not a native English speaker myself, and I think I have some feeling for what sounds casual and what sounds pretentious, but I sometimes wonder if that intuition is really correct or off-base.