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From: "Andrea Brundt" <andrea_w_brundt -at- hotmail -dot- com>
>
> I wrote:
> "Seriously, folks...there are plenty of examples of bad writing for low
> wages
> right here at home. What's the real issue?"
>
> I'm going to try to answer my own question!
>
> The issue is that crap-writing-for-cheap wouldn't be an issue if good
> writing was always valued. It isn't always valued, so there are plenty of
> intelligent, hard-working people who are also good writers feeling
> frustrating in their chosen industry. Imagine how a good singer-songwriter
> feels when he sees a pitch-corrected gameshow-winning karaoke singer at the
> top of the charts.
>
However, a recent topic here has been specifically about US companies
offshoring writing and editing to countries that have large numbers of
non-native English speakers who claim their English is impeccable.
> Who's to blame? I don't know. (But I'm pretty sure it's got pretty much
> exactly *nothing* to do with the city/state/country/continent from whence
> the no-talent bozo hails.)
>
Right, it's not the country by itself, Andrea. It's the claim that the quality
is as good as that of native English speakers when that claim is patently
false. We don't normally have provenance on the bad writing we encounter. We
do now.
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