alt Hacker News> a native English speaker is just going to write, they are not going to write verbose articles such as this one.
Yes, both Americans and Brits write overly verbose prose.
> Put it this way, a true English speaker has absolutely no idea what a 'past participle' is.
Plenty of true English speakers are educated enough to know what 'past participle' is. Like common. Just like plenty of native Germans can consciously analyze cases.
America is full of people that know what the 'past participle' is. Isn't it another country, like 'Africa' is a country, according to a worrying amount of Americans?