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Re: Converting American English to British English
Subject:Re: Converting American English to British English From:"T. Word Smith" <techwordsmith -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Feb 2004 06:16:17 -0800 (PST)
Although, having said all that, if it were me, and I
were hiring an editor to do this and didn't have one
in-place already, I'd hire a British editor, yes.
--- "T. Word Smith" <techwordsmith -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> I must disagree.
>
> This is technical writing, not an episode of Matlock
> <g>. Search and replace with an intelligent
> technical
> writer at the wheel will be fine ... for most
> things,
> especially computing ones.
>
> --- ellis -at- cherryleaf -dot- com wrote:
> >
> > You should use a British editor because:
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T.
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