This is utterly false. In academia you will find numerous peer-reviewed journals which have high percentages of non-native English speaking authors. You'd probably find many articles in such journals to contain "bad English". But they're often doing totally original research and so, no, better alternatives don't exist.
We live in an era where English is the de-facto language of the internet and some of the most brilliant people aren't native speakers of English and so might be considered to have "bad English". Not reading their work seems like a perfect way to miss out on learning things you might not otherwise learn.
> "too many better alternatives already exist"
> This is utterly false.
There are tutorials on VIM in English that are well written. Many are good. Thus, my claim is not "utterly false" it is true. If I did not think it was true and had not seen evidence that it was true I would not have said so.
> Not reading their work seems like a perfect way to miss out on learning things you might not otherwise learn.
There is an overflowing abundance of material from which to learn in the world. In English alone, even. And there is only a small finite amount of time and energy that I have available for focusing on it. Thus I try to filter out the crappier stuff. Thus I filter out things in bad English when better alternatives exist. This does not seem like an unwise strategy.
This is utterly false. In academia you will find numerous peer-reviewed journals which have high percentages of non-native English speaking authors. You'd probably find many articles in such journals to contain "bad English". But they're often doing totally original research and so, no, better alternatives don't exist.
We live in an era where English is the de-facto language of the internet and some of the most brilliant people aren't native speakers of English and so might be considered to have "bad English". Not reading their work seems like a perfect way to miss out on learning things you might not otherwise learn.