>>Come to think of it, it should be considered an art - it's an effect that isn't simple to achieve intentionally. It's a sort of negative diplomacy.
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>I think one thing worth pointing out is that English is not Naomi's first language. Her on-line English has *VASTLY* improved since her earliest posts here, so much so that those encountering her only occasionally may think she's a native speaker. Interpreting nuances in forum messages isn't easy at the best of time; I think Naomi deserves a little more latitude than we may give others.

That's really into a level of knowledge "sufficient to be dangerous" - where one may mistake her for a native speaker, and the misunderstanding may be not on the surface, but at some deeper level, harder to detect and harder to debug.