Hello everyone, how are you all doing?

It's been a while, and I took a stroll around the main question-answer site. And something instantly caught my attention.

In the following answer, the answer-poster claimed himself to be the native speaker. But seeing his name, I got a doubt about his claim, because his name sounded so familiar and seemed like it was a native name from India. But then I thought it might be possible, what if he was born and brought up in english-speaking country or something similar situation arose for him. So I visited his profile page and there it shows his location is in India.

Then how can he be a native speaker, which he caimed in his answer.

And here is the profile link

@Man_From_India He can be a native speaker of British English and then moved to India, or he could be a native speaker of Indian English, for two examples. =)

@WillHunting that is fine. But it depends on many things in case of the first situation. Like how long he lived in English speaking country etc. In case of second situation, I don't believe Indian English qualify as a native English. It can at best be a variation of English mostly used in India, if you ask me what Indian English means to me.

Furthermore, his name suggests that he is a pure Indian. Though only that doesn't pull out the possibility of his being a native speaker which he claimed and I doubted and still doubt :( sorry can't help!

@Man_From_India Well, it depends on how you want to define native speaker. As far as I am concerned, one can be a native speaker of Indian English/South African English/British English/American English/Canadian English/New Zealand English/Australian English, and even in British English, there is English English/Irish English/Welsh English/Scottish English. =)

@Man_From_India Actually, it is also not too important whether one is a native speaker or not in whatever sense, because a native speaker can give the wrong answer and a non-native speaker can give the right answer sometimes. I think ultimately for this site, the concept of native speaker in whatever sense is not that important. Of course, if one is a native speaker of a particular variety of English, one can then give insights that may be unknown to speakers of other varietes. =)

@Man_From_India I don't know about Indian names, but there are many people of Indian ancestry who are born in the US and UK, for example. So the name itself says nothing. Someone with an American name like Will Hunting can even be born in India and be a native speaker of Hindi, for example. =)