RE: Boeing Tech Pubs going offshore?

["Len Kirby" <Len -dot- Kirby -at- pwrm -dot- com>]

>>My question for the Boeing execs is how can standards be maintained
for manuals written in English when the outsourcing is being done in a
place that "scored low for English fluency."  I mean, what is the plan
here?  


Hmm... maybe all new content will be generated in Spanish? 

Cost per word for techwriters in Latin America are cheaper ...
Cost to translate from Spanish to every other language is probably the
same...

Seems like a logical business decision to me. 
I mean, who says that techwriting source content has to be in English in
the first place?

Len

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