Re: Thank You from new tech writer

["Edgar D' Souza" <edgar -dot- b -dot- dsouza -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:37 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
>  > doesn't have to be a non-native speaker to write poorly. It is not too
>  > far a stretch to think that anyone with a writing talent who is fluent
>  > in a given language--if trained--can learn to write without obvious
>  > colloquialisms. But I still need convincing. How do the docs that come
>  > out of India (for your company) stack up against the docs that come
>  out
>  > of Canada?
>
>  At least one of the writers is a pleasant, motherly sort who had a good,
>  well-rounded education.

Hmm...
I wouldn't really stack up docs - they're supposed to go out to the
users, y'know!

Aside from that, I'm rather well-rounded (but can't say the same of my
education!); while I'm definitely Indian, and lag quite a bit as far
as colloquialisms are concerned, I seem to have deluded myself into
believing that I can actually turn out useful/helpful docs...
Of course, that assumes a lot of things: cooperative SMEs, competent
programmers, benevolent editors... but still, I like to hold on to the
hope that somewhere, sometime, some kindly soul in the North American
continent actually _reads_ the docs that this humble Indian
whatchamacallit... oh, wait, tech writer - blame that on the alcohol!
- has created.

Other markets?

For Indian firms?

Look, I'm the one who's supposed to be inebriated, OK? :-) Go Google
or something ;-)

Cheers! (hic!)
Ed.
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