Re:I started taking English classes at the age of 46
by matheusmoreira on Sunday December 11, 2022 @12:52PM
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On anonymous and pseudonymous communities, people tend to assume everyone's american for various reasons. This is also true here on HN.
In my experience, when people think someone else is a foreigner, they ask them where they're from. The assumption that they were talking to an american was violated so they try to determine who they're actually talking to. So if I can manage to not violate that assumption, it must mean that my speech resembles that of an american native speaker.
How does this work exactly? Do you explicitly say you're a native speaker and then wait until someone realizes you are not and tell you?
Because I don't see it happening that people will tell you they don't think you're a native speaker organically, in a conversation that's going on about something else.