This subtweet was motivated by a very positive email that I received this morning, that made me realize that perhaps we do not realize this enough.
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This is also true: https://twitter.com/froukehe/status/1221393430699544576?s=20 … Writing and speaking English being a Dutch person is so much easier than if your first language is much more dissimilar.
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Reminds of when I started my PhD in Victoria, Canada, and how my jaw hurt from talking English all day. It required the use of very different muscles apparently. Also learning new materials in English (statis in particular I recall) was much more difficult than would have guessed
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Yes. And they do not appreciate this at all.
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Not true. Deeply appreciated. Collateral effect—no structural pressure to acquire second languages.

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Native English advantage becomes particularly relevant at "higher" journals with a strict word limit (and expectation of ample results) Few would acknowledge this, though, and attribute successful submissions to their great science and clarity of presentation
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Yes, like institutional privilege.
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I would like to carefully counter this. My experience is that my (former) colleagues are all pretty damn good speakers of "international English". My (allegedly somewhat archaic) native version of English is sometimes barely the same language.
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You're ignoring the fact that every academic paper or student essay you need to read, you read faster, no matter how proficient the non-native speakers are. Every sentence you write takes you a little less effort to formulate. Didn't even mention foreign accent attitudes.
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