Started reading a tutorial for Kotlin MutableSharedFlows and the English was full of really glaring grammatical errors, just really blatant that whoever wrote this did not have English as their first language, and I was like… oh, thank goodness. A human wrote this. I can trust it
My experience with a small European language is quite the opposite:
When I find an article that is well written, with full sentences, diacritics, and correct grammar, I trust it. Mostly.
When I find a post without diacritics or punctuation, or a post with mojibake, I still trust it to some extent, because that’s how we communicated before Unicode and Diacritics Are Hard.
Seeing a post with proper diacritics but mismatched grammar, THAT’s when I worry.
Makes sense. Small languages are usually written by people who speaks them, so bad grammar hints lack of effort or automatic translation. IAs usually are not a factor; they don't support them or spammers prefer to target more widely used languages.
For English, bad grammar hints a non-native speaker who made a great deal of effort to write in a language they don't fully grasp, about something they really care about. IAs usually get the grammar better than people. So, trustworthy.
