Thursday, October 11, 2007

The beauty of English

I've never written anything about work as if it played no parts in my life. Early this morning I received some feedback on a report from some nonsense westerner who thinks Asians cannot write in their language. But wait, who says native English can always write good English?

a) In the course of review,...
b) It is noted that...
c) Also noted that...
d) ABC is a means of mitigating risk of...
e) ABC is not always accurate...
f) ABC manuals have not been developed.
g) Procedures around ABC areas around controls over...

I would like to say, we, who learn English as a second language but in a proper way, may well be capable of writing anything much better than the above. You win, not because you are native, but you are the boss.

Before I used to discuss and compromise to a certain extent but once I heard them said, 'this is my way, my style, adopt it.' So now I pass the argument and comfort myself that they are too old to learn.

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