In reply to Peter Cralen.

@Peter, This is understandable, but very anglo saxon POV. When you have a diverse group of people from different cultural backgrounds and different levels of control of english, the default should be to not be offended unless someone specifically names you. (side note, there is one guy in the US called trump that many people seem to take no offense with the way he expresses himself, so even the US is too culturally diverse to have 100% rules on how people are expected to express themselves.)

If you want to encourage participation in a discussion it is upon you to be more tolerant to things being said in a way you don't like.

Side note, in an age where tech companies do a diversity report, I wonder what would such report say about wordpress core - christian white males from the US. Some more christian white males with native english and then some more christian white european males.

For a comparison look here - http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/users, still very not representative to the amount of woman actually coding and doing stuff with wordpress but much more diverse geographically with people from indonesia, india, bangladesh, egypt, barbados, brazil.

It is nice for @matt to speak about the global reach of wordpress, but core feels like an inner circle. You basically need to be in the UK or US time zones to participate in discussions, and you just can't do slack at all if your english is not perfect. Add to that the facts that the automaticians meet in the flesh, and the rest meet in the wordcamps that are always far away from where a lot of wordpress users are (the wordcamps in which you can actually have the social interaction to develop human intimacy with core developers).

So yes it would have been nice if everybody spoke like the kindergarden teacher teaches in "small town midwest US" but most people in the world probably never saw the relevant movies/tv shows and don't know how it should be done (or in other words, how to insult by using only positive terms ;) ). Raising additional cultural barriers to the ones already imposed by language is contra productive if you want to encourage participation, which at this point in time, I am not sure wordpress core actually wants, so core is actually in its happy place, both seem to be open to contribution from anyone, while in practice ignoring everyone which is not in the inner circle.

It is not like this happens only on "make" and slack. trac tickets opened by people outside of the inner circle, are likely to just get ignored which is actually worse than being closed. One year after you open a ticket, a core contributor will ask you if you want to submit a patch. By then you most likely forgot what it was about, lost interest or just don't have the time to learn SVN just for that.

(sorry that the rant that came out is unpropotional to the length of your suggestion) (here I paid lip service to what anglo saxons expect, obviously if I did actually care about it not being proportional I would not have written that much. If you wrote such a sentence in something mailed to me I would actually be offended by you wasting my time and bandwidth on something you didn't actually mean :) )