Stan Shebs wrote:
I don't have any good real-life examples to put up
here, but likely
cases would include judgement whether a particular phrasing is neutral
or slanted, or what is the most common term for something.
One of the best writers of English on the projects is Erik Müller, a
German. His English is much better than the average English speaker and
indeed much better than even a lot of Wikipedians.
Even so, I will rarely notice him writing something that doesn't sound
quite right. Usually this is not quite an _error_ but just some kind of
_oddness_. His English is German-flavored.
I have no opinion about the usefulness of babel boxes identifying native
speakers. I do agree that proficiency in a language is not always
exactly the same thing as being native or not. But I still think that
there is a difference in the kinds of errors that native speakers of a
language make versus the kinds of errors that others make.
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