On 4/25/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Hi.
Preliminary: This posting is *NOT* meant to re-incite a discussion that has already taken place and is already over: namely, the debates about the deletion of [[Template:User en-5]] and its equivalents for other languages.
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In reality, most non-native English speakers I know speak and write English way better than an average native speaker. In reality, among all speakers (native or non-native) there are huge variations in the level of skill, ranging from "lolz asl?" to Pulitzer-prize winning prose. It is *that* which the Babel templates are trying to gauge, *not* whether someone is a native speaker or not.
Timwi
Really? That's odd, because most of the non-native speakers I've met on Wikipedia were noticeably worse than native speakers.
~maru