reineke wrote:compliments started turning into complaints: as they became very proficient, they were accepted as native speakers and their mistakes were taken as intentional, causing affront and other kinds of negative reactions from their native-speaker colleagues. Somewhat defective language "protected" them from the higher expectations and judgments that come from being a language user with native-like speech.
I aspire to one day be demotivated by native speakers' criticisms instead of compliments.