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Usually people identifying as Americans write good English on HN, but in the comments in this thread, I must say, your English isn't that good. And I'm not an American or an Englishman, I don't live in an English speaking country and English is only my second language, so me easily spotting your mistakes is saying something.

Of course, you could be an immigrant, which is cool actually , but mentioning it when giving a disclaimer would be nice.

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I realize you probably didn't mean it this way, but your comment reads like piling a personal attack on top of another personal attack, which is a seriously-not-ok thing to do here.

If you're not certain that you're raising the subject civilly, please don't comment on someone else's English or their immigration status.

I'm ashamed of my US college education and the US public school system, for it has failed at even the most simple task: endowing me with intelligible enough English so that random commentators on the internet are able to identify my first language.

I had seen statistics that our school systems were bad. But it wasn't really palpable until I got accused of having the vocabulary and grammatical equivalent of a paid Chinese shill.

You are ashamed of your own education? The only part of the education system you can control?

.. endowing me with intelligible enough English so that random commentators on the internet are able to identify my first language. ..

This reads like a terrible thesaurus auto correct.

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