tanteMany of the people I do have online conversations with speak English as their first language. I kinda get by but you native speakers really underestimate how hard it is to express oneself in a foreign language. Concepts work differently, metaphors don't really translate, references you have used for decades don't make sense.
Like in German I am actually somewhat eloquent and texts I write don't look like a person with a head injury wrote them.
BlumenKid@tante you got the point across amazingly well. There were clumsy expressions, but few and far between. Better than I could ever express myself, and I've been learning, reading and speaking english regularly for over 40 years. I guess those people had to attack the form because it was too hard to find fault in the content.