FAWS comments on Rationality and the English Language - Less Wrong

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Comment author: FAWS 22 November 2011 07:58:14PM *  1 point [-]

It would however be reasonable to conclude that the author does not have strong analytic understanding of what exactly makes them a strong player/good writer, and be cautious about the more abstract parts of the advice, similar to how native speakers can tell you whether a sentence is grammatical, but are usually less reliable for giving you general rules than speakers who learned the language as adults to a high level of proficiency.