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It's also full of spelling, punctuation, and grammatical errors. I had to reread every other sentence to get the gist of it. If the content was gold I could probably overlook that, but it's not. It's basically a carelessly scrawled rant.



Even taking into account that the writer's first language wasn't English the article is pretty poor. Maybe a lot was lost in translation.

>There is a Swedish saying that goes something like "Give the bear honey, and it will take you entire arm off".

I love this idiom. It feels much nicer than "Give them an inch and they'll take a yard / mile"


As a linguistics student, I have a good deal of sympathy for people using a secondary language-- but I don't think this author even proofread his post before submitting it.




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