My rant wasn't about his lack of fluency in the English language. You only learn once what a sentence is, and the concept translates over to most other natural languages. The same is true with the concept of constructing a paragraph. Even if he's not a native English speaker, I'm willing to bet that his writings in his mother tongue are just as bad. Just ask professors how often they encounter poor quality writings that were produced by native speakers. And FWIW, I'm not a native English speaker either. I'm multilingual, and I don't use that fact as an excuse for anything.
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:41 AM, simendsjo via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > And my guess is the people doing the insults never use another language > than their native language on a day-to-day basis. Not being a native > English speaker myself, I too got offended by this rant. It's naive to > assume everyone should be as fluent in English as native speakers. Some > countries are even dubbing all English shows and movies, so they're not > exposed to much English outside some forums - where many people might > not be native speakers themselves and thus learning you faulty grammar. > Luckily most people understands this issue.
