[lbo-talk] more news from the motherland...

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Nov 15 22:14:37 PST 2005


Chris Doss wrote:


>While I'm at it, here's something that's been
>bothering me. Normally I edit translations of Russian
>scientific papers, but also often stuff that has been
>sent to us in English from various non-Russophone
>places. The material from India almost invariably is
>in atrocious English. Why is this? I thought English
>
I've puzzled over this myself. There has been a fair amount of outsourcing of tech writing to India and the stuff I have seen has a lot of problems. No idea where "the"s should go, weird syntax, etc.

At the same time, all the folks from India I know personally speak and write english beautifully, and my favorite writers in English in the last fifty years are from India.

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Joanna


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