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Re: American English

Subject: Re: American English
From: Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>
To: Hemang Antani <hemang -dot- phenix -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:17:43 -0500

Hemang Antani wrote:

Hello all,

I am a technical writer working in India for an Indian software product
company. I am asked to write in "American English".

Can you guide me what is "American English", or "writing for an American
audience".

Is it about use of specific terminologies or about sentence structure or
something else.


Hemang,

I am a freelance editor and an experienced US technical writer. I'll be glad to assist you in producing documents written in American English, as I am a native speaker of the language. In the course of editing your documents, I will explain the changes so that you can start to learn the American idiom. Eventually, you may be able to write in American English without further outside assistance. Please write to me privately for my rates, which I trust your employer can easily afford. Hey, offshoring cuts both ways, right?

I am curious, though, why you applied for and accepted a position that requires a language skill you lack. Was this a result of a simple misunderstanding or did you assert that you had the skill while knowing you did not?

Best regards,

Dick Margulis
http://www.dmargulis.com/

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