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Subject:Re: Bad translation...et je suis bilingue From:Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:49:00 -0800
At 12:14 AM 1/21/99 +0100, Max Wyss wrote:
>The other question is, how many _non-native speakers_ are there in the US
>who would be qualified to write technical documentation in English?
Not many, I bet, but I do know one - a refugee from Castro's Cuba whose
writing in American English is better than most native speakers.
--Wayne (who thinks Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov had a good grasp of
English, too)
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