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Re:Ask HN: Differences in Programming Style by Nationalities by throwaway210401 on Monday April 19, 2021 @03:20PM (#26866864)
I have noted that chinese guys write code just like others but when they write comments in English, they mess them up. For example almost always, when they to save "imap clients typically request multiple messages at a time", they will invariably write "imap clinent typically request multiple message at a time". Note the lack of plurals.
Re:Ask HN: Differences in Programming Style by Nationalities by leecb on Monday April 19, 2021 @03:34PM (#26867009)
Lots of Southeast/East-Asian languages lack plurals; I can only imagine it's difficult to pick up if you have not grown up using plurals.