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rene1596 is not a native speaker of French.
CK and CM are one and the same person. Counting them as 2 different native speakers is misleading.
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I took a quick look. Sacredceltic is a native French speaker ;-) Rene1596 seems to be one as well, but it's hard to check...
He is not. He is a Russian brat, living in Switzerland and pretending to be an "old French linguist from Paris" to annoy me, which is ridiculous because he cannot even argue properly in French. He overestimates his French, which is good, but far from being "native".
A number of brats such as him, endowed with an oversized ego, actually use Tatoeba as a playground to test both their linguistic skills and their ability to deceive people.
The problem with these brats, when they are actually Russian, is that betray themselves because they don't get the articles properly, as well as the coordination of tenses in French, which are completely different from Russian.
Can you post some actual examples that suggest that rene1596 is not a native French speaker?
I already did many times, just review the comments on his sentences, and anyway, you don't speak French at all, so that would be of no use to you...
I think he’s native. I found his comments even more relevant than his sentences for checking.
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentence..._user/rene1596
I’m not talking about the meaning of his comments, but the way he wrote them. It’s native text. I noticed a large part of his comments are arguments with sacredceltic, which in my opinion are linguistic-related and not relevant points to juge his nativeness. Natives just "know" things about their language, most of the time without being able to properly explain them. Whereas linguists can explain. I don’t expect a native to be a linguist. Rene1596 is not a linguist (and I believe none of us are), but he’s definitely native.
> Rene1596 is not a linguist
So why did he write he was ? At which lie do you stop believing him ?
nimfeo is a native speaker of French.