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Maybe the tone doesn't translate but this guy sounds insanely egotistical. I feel truly bad for his family and anyone he works with.



It strongly reminded me of this graph of different cultural norms for phrasing criticism:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sebjilke/status/10364067943591731...

(I believe TFA is Russian, so read the Eastern European graph)


Very interesting to see those cultural differences.

Hilariously, the first graph is titled "Objective distribution" (of criticism phrasing). That's not how language works...




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