komponisto comments on Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 24 April 2011 04:46:16AM 10 points [-]

I have nothing to say against this eminently upvotable comment, of course. It just so happens that (no doubt primed somewhat by a recent conversation with Vladimir_M) I feel the need to take note of a remarkable milestone:

the women members were uncomfortable to talk about these experiences

This is literally the very first non-native-English-speaker shibboleth that I've ever detected in any of your comments. (The more idiomatic construction is "uncomfortable talking".) I think I've managed to "catch" all the other prominent near-perfect non-natives at some point long before now (Morendil, the various Vladimirs, even Kaj Sotala), but you were the last holdout, by a significant margin. Well done!