@jfslicer This is very true. I should have been more clear that they have posted in English before, giving me an idea of their proficiency and voice, and some I’ve attended events with that have been in English. The difference now is that these are long-form posts with rather advanced phrasing and words. I’m experiencing a clear and sudden change in tonality from at least a handful of people.
@jfslicer To underscore how valid your point is, it made me think of why I’m never satisfied with machine translations of my own writings from English to Swedish or vice versa. I write differently depending on language.
I wrote my university dissertation on translation of fictional work, so I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me 😅. I’m more intent on how the target group hears and understands my message, than staying exactly true to the original text.
But I also won’t use words that don’t feel like “me”.