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Re: Are Indian Tech Writer Firms as good as American Firms?
Subject:Re: Are Indian Tech Writer Firms as good as American Firms? From:Sandy Harris <pashley -at- storm -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 04 Jun 2002 09:50:48 -0400
quills -at- airmail -dot- net wrote:
> ... It might work ok if the writers are extremely fluent, to point
> of being able to think in English,
I'm a Canadian who's spent some time in India. There are plenty of
Indians who meet that qualification. Many are educated wholly or at
least largely in English. Quite a few are fluent, literate, ...
Of course, it's Indian English and there is often some non-standard
usage, especially in informal speech. I don't think that's a problem;
it is no harder for an educated Indian to drop those oddities than it
is for me to avoid ending sentences with "eh", or for people South of
me to keep "y'all" out of their writing.
> but you would spend a lot of time
> checking the documents each time to ensure comprehension.
Yes, but at Indian wages, for the cost of, say, three overworked
writers in a Western country you could likely have five writers,
a full time editor, a graphics specialist, an indexer, someone
to maintain the templates, and a glosary/terminology specialist.
The last quote I saw for technical people in a third world country
was for software developers in China, early 90s: $10,000 per PhD
year.
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