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Thanks for the constructive advice, will work on the points you mentioned. Glad you enjoyed the post though!

It's great that you can take criticism. I've interacted with quite a few Asians online who literally believe their English is perfected, yet their written words read like they are proper idiots. Your English is pretty great though, in comparison. I think you will find you will gain a good deal more respect among fluent English speakers and programmers alike when you master the language.

Fuck that noise. It's representative of a shit state of affairs when 'mastery' of one particular language is necessary to gain respect among fluent speakers. No respect for those who haven't 'mastered' the thing we have mastery of? Fuck, it sounds like a recipe for supremacy or something.

It's precisely about noise. I suppose you haven't had to deal with the kind of people I have or else you may not be regurgitating this politically correct trite. It is simply objectively superior for one man to be understood better than another. It is about the other persons ability to understand them with as little effort as possible, and when you need to ask them "Hey, wait, explain what you mean by this [fucking gibberish noise]" you have just lost time and patience. Respect is not something one is entitled to.

I mean, shit, how is this any different from me jumping in and contributing to a Git repo the language of which I haven't mastered? Should I not lose respect when my PR's have syntax errors or use bad practices? Fuck that noise indeed.

> who literally believe their English is perfected,

There's no one to blame except yourselves, Americans (I speculate here). Especially in Bay Area or any other melting pot. You speak language remotely resembling English? We can understand you without "Say it again, please?" every 10 seconds? THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! Only if you know how hard it is to solicit a style/grammar correction from an average IT engineer/manager. Oh, ah, it's so rude to correct someone (even if the person explicitly asks for this). So far I was able to convince only one my friend to correct me (and it wasn't completely free - he is learning Russian and wants the same from me).

You are commenting on someones English from India. Remind me to do that to a Canadian, American or South African next time. India has the second most English speakers of any country in the world. It's an official language.

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