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Subject:RE: So...how do I break into tech writing? From:Elizabeth Estep <EEstep -at- mrisystem -dot- com> To:'TECHWR-L' <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:44:48 -0400
Sorry to be obtuse, but what exactly is so offensive? The use of the work
foreign? All this person said, at least as I read it, was:
1 - I can't compete with the foreign trained programmers as a programmer.
2 - As a native English speaker, my English skills are probably superior to
the English skills of people who have learned English as a second (or later)
language, though not necessarily superior to their language skills in their
native (first) language.
3 - I'd like to leverage my inferior programming skills and superior English
skills to find a niche in the software field.
I can't find anything in there that implies that programmers from another
country are inferior either as programmers, users of their first language,
or people.
