Non-native English is my unfair advantage as a tech blogger
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Every article about "writing in English as a non-native speaker" seems to give the same advice. Use Grammarly. Read more books. Don't use a translator. Practice. That's fine, but it treats the problem as "you're bad at English, fix it." And that misses something. My native tongue is Japanese and I write tech posts in English. At some point, I realized my English writing had strengths I didn't expect. Not despite being non-native, but because of it. Here's what I mean. You already wr