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In my discipline, the reason is because most reviewers and editors are non-native speakers. Hence, they know that their English is poor and no longer comment on it.
– Prof. Santa Claus
Commented Feb 14, 2023 at 5:55
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Then try fixing the English in a manuscript you do not understand. --- This was essentially my problem a few years ago, as described in comments to this 5 May 2019 answer of yours: "... virtually every paper that was offered up was in computer science, and the two or three I selected, I felt that I didn't know enough about the field to intelligently make any but the most trivial editing changes ..."
– Dave L Renfro
Commented Feb 14, 2023 at 14:48

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