Re: American Technical Writing Style?

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

Usually it is not that difficult for American readers to follow 
non-American writing. The difficulty or annoyances are the spelling, 
measurement units, and wordiness, something that American writers are 
guilty of too.

The real problem comes from writers whose English is a second 
language. Then the grammar and strange word usage begets problems.

British, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English is 
understandable and acceptable to most American audiences.

Southern English is the dialect that gives the most problems in the 
US. We uns speechify different.

Scott

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