[flatM]

Um, not a native English speaker here. Though as long as I can articulate my thoughts to have a meaningful discussion, I don't think that's being an issue. I would rather you focus on the topic and contribute your thoughts or counter-arguments, than focusing on trivia or throw off 5 cents party stuff to close this fruitful conversation.

[galdosdi]

You can definitely articulate your thoughts enough to have a meaningful discussion, your written English is indistinguishable from college graduate level native written English. I am seriously curious what small hint convinced jonstokes your English was not native, because it was too small for me to catch I guess.

[flatM]

Thanks for the nice words. That's why hackernews is the forum I frequent most, since we can have discussions over almost every imaginable topics in an intelligent and decent manner. Even it is as political and ideological as this one.

[jonstokes]

I'm an editor, so I have an inordinately fine sense of who makes what kinds of tiny errors.

[galdosdi]

OH. That actually makes sense.

[PeCaN]

...I actually thought you were a native speaker at first. Your English is pretty good and it's easy to understand your thoughts.

[flatM]

Thanks for the nice words. Speaking with an accent and writing not as fluent as native English speakers used to make myself frustrated a lot. I got used to it a while ago. Though debating political or historical topics like this one is still a challenge to me. I think I need to participate more often, :)