You will notice in my posts a liberal use of italics, particularly around words like may and possibly. These italics are used for emphasis, all too often ignored it seems. Are people unaware of what italics mean when used in a sentence these days?Yeah, that must be it. Your arguments would make perfect sense to native speaker.
I've never once had a non-native speaker convince me they were English, irrespective of their ability in the language. Likely the same pertains to non-natives speaking German, French, Spanish and so on. English, contrary to popular opinion, is a complex language.Let's just forget that most professionals today have to work daily in English dealing with multinational companies and teams, from manufacturing, software development to actual science without English as their native language. No, these pursuits are much more easy to deal with than discussing peoples subjective experiences about loudspeakers. I mean it's not like we are dealing with universal, well defined concepts in audio science forum.
It is (or at least it should be) basic decorum to ask someone to clarify their position, if they have any doubt about what is meant. That one can write about as clearly as possible in English and still be misunderstood, suggests there are failures of others to comprehend (usually non-native speakers) or failure in the will to understand (those 'going into battle', usually native speakers).
The latter is definitely worse, because these are people (native speakers) totally capable of understanding the point you are making, whether they agree or not, but they do not actually reply to what you've written, but their own distortion thereof. This is far more tedious and unproductive than disagreements with people that speak a different language, as it is not something that any clarification can settle, as it is a type of mindset that comes with discussions on the internet.
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