[dang]

I'm sure you didn't intend this as an insult but in the context of the comment you were responding to, it could have been expressed more kindly.

Unfortunately, an inflammatory grandiose generalization like "native speakers are the worst at understanding their own language" is likely to derail a thread altogether and turn itself into the (much less interesting) topic, so please let's all try to edit those out of our posts to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html