Starving Pelican wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:36 pm
I think it's clearer once you notice the pattern - the English comment wasn't a one-off, he always made disparaging little remarks along those lines.
So I take It you took offense or at least found the English comment inappropriate by the above?
Is the reading that he just praised the mother's English skills, by suggesting that she was better than the forums average really that far-fetched?
I don't remember the other instances I noticed where it too me looked like a similar kind of err on the side of taking insult well enough to quote them, and it probably doesn't really matter. I am not questioning the mod decision or defending the banned one. I am just trying to understand what I am missing when I read several of his posts that triggered widespread negative reactions, and I could not really understand those interpretations.
In many EU projects I have been working on, it tended to be the UK/Irish people that struggled the most with the EU broken English, since they notice all the linguistical errors and less than perfect phraseology, the rest of us seem to be more used to struggle for nailing stuff in English, and kind of by default have an active "let's see what he/she could have meant by that" process running in the background.
My friendly interpretation might be a spillover from that.
Edit - A clarification regarding the 2nd to last paragraph is in place, In order not to get banned for belittling English skills
It is not intended to question or make fun of the English and other skills of my UK/Irish co-workers, just an observation that they tend to have a slightly higher tendency to ask what was just said at times when somebody with a rather heavy accent is speaking.