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This is silly. I don't write in my native language because I want everyone to understand what I have to say. If you want to be part of the conversation, just learn English. It's really, really easy. I never even spend any effort on learning the language.

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I make an active effort to use my native language whenever I get an opportunity to do so. I see it as an accessibility feature. Much easier to understand things when they're in your native language.

How is it accessible when you're limiting your audience to people speaking your native language? Also, English is easier to understand than my native language, which lends itself to getting unnecessary convoluted. Especially when studying, I always look first at English resources, since the one in my native language are made more difficult to understand because of the complexity of the language itself. (My first language is German.)

If I have an audience that entirely speaks the language I try to take advantage of it. It's very common here for people to use English unconditionally in conversations about technology.

I'd say the article doesn't really mean what it reads. It repeats american democratic party line which tries to appeal to hispanic and black demographic this way to win their votes.

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