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> During few months, this project wasn’t the priority, so we decided to wait the release of PHP 7 to compare performances.

I have no idea why the author is choosing to write in such a strange grammatical style.

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Not everyone is a native English speaker. I am not and probably sound as weird. If it makes sense though who cares?

Exactly, the author is French. While I am sure this was reviewed by someone else in the Dailymotion (a French company), the reviewer was also French.

If you have no idea, why bring it up?

Often times other people here do have a different perspective.

I also found it very distracting from reading the post.

This view is pretty common for people reading their first language written by someone using their second or third language. This comes people that just isn't as good at writing and expressing themselves. This does by no means make their thoughts less valuable. Sometimes you just have to open your mind to other people even though the words come out in the wrong order.

English is not my first language either but I don't write "I'm sorry for my mistakes, english is not my first language" because that should be pretty obvious. And if it's not obvious, there is no need to say it, right?

I just think I'm fortunate that my first language became the de-facto language for technology and that anyone who speaks/writes it well enough to be comprehensible about technical matters in a 2nd language deserves my respect!.

My GF finds that I know multiple programming languages impressive while not realising that her ability to speak English, Hungarian and German fluently leaves me in awe.

> I also found it very distracting from reading the post.

'from' should be 'while'

Annoying is it not? Never assume a posters first language is English and as long as the meaning is clear I don't think it matters.

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