Please don't be an asshole on HN. This is an international community with millions of non-native English speakers. The astonishing thing, on the whole, is that their English is as good as it is. We should be welcoming them, not posting putdowns.
If you'd like to help someone with their English, that's fine, but then the burden on you is to make sure that the context is appropriate and that your "help" isn't going to come across as an insult. "Not trying to be mean" doesn't cut it, and in fact often signifies the opposite.
If you'd like to help someone with their English, that's fine, but then the burden on you is to make sure that the context is appropriate and that your "help" isn't going to come across as an insult. "Not trying to be mean" doesn't cut it, and in fact often signifies the opposite.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28128964.
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