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assuming this person is dutch, i find ESL people write better “strongly worded letters”—if they have a strong grasp of the language—because they are trying to communicate their point as clearly as possible, which comes off as coarse and stern to people used to reading corporate communications written by people paid to beat english into a pulp so that it means nothing.


It's also a Dutch thing. We don't beat around the bush.


You like to weed out any waffling.


Even if this person has a different mother tongue their English is clearly excellent and not likely explained by “ESL tendencies.”




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