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NooneAtAll3 ◴[] No.45114145[source]
fascinating topic, but does anyone else feel like the text is hard to read?

something about choice of words and sentence structure feels... un-prose-like

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shmel ◴[] No.45114198[source]
English isn't his native language? Perhaps that's why
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1. bluetomcat ◴[] No.45114673[source]
Their English is sufficiently good. It's a cultural aspect regarding writing style. When Russians and most Eastern Europeans write about technical subjects, they tend to be concise, dense and straightforward. Americans, on the other hand, are over-expressive and tend to saturate their writing with pointless metaphors and rhetorical devices.