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English is not the author's primary language.

I think they did a great job for writing in a secondary language.

Yea, now I feel bad. It's just kind of funny that there are so many ways to get English either right or wrong, seemingly randomly.

This sort of thing is quite common for non-native speakers. The fact that you can say "how does X work" and "how X works" but not "how does X works" is not particularly obvious, and easy to mix up.

He's Norwegian and studied in Wales.

How good are you at blogging in your third language?

Ich? Nicht so gut, aber Ich kann veillicht ein bisschen posten auf Deutsch.

Agus co dhiù, bha Beurla an dàrnan cànan agamsa.

So if my posts in English (proper English, not North American "Simplified English") are a bit squint at times, blame that.

They did a much better job than a JavaScript developer writing Java.