TalonAlright, listen up. I see a lot of discussion getting way too heated because you've got people with perfect English on one side, and people just struggling to get themselves understood in a language they don't speak well on the other, and then both sides just don't get what the other is saying and then things explode. I've seen this so, so many times. And honestly all this tells me is that it's really, really easy for English speaking people to think that since we have a lot of good English speakers on the internet, or that that is the bubble they always find themselves in, that everybody does. And this is so very much not the case and y'all should be careful. You're making enemies you don't necessarily have to make just because you don't consider that the person on the other side can't express themselves clearly and is just doing the best they can.
Stellarator 🏳️🌈🌮@talon This doesn't apply just to debates/arguments. I've only recently been becoming aware of just how many non-native English speakers I talk to on the internet, in English. I've been trying to tone down the fanciness of how I sometimes speak/type and focus more on understandability than sounding clever. I at least hope it's been helping.
The internet is for everyone. And since at the moment the internet is in large part happening in English, it seems only fair to try to make the things one adds to the internet understandable to as many people as possible.