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Originally Posted by RHWright
And in many cases, I've found non-native speakers to know it better because they actually had to pay attention and learn it, whereas the native speakers "larned it gooder" through immersion and just getting by in grade school. (I was going to say "grammar school," but, well...)
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Difference: The non-native speakers learn a formal version of the language that doesn't reflect how the language is spoken by the majority.