Tuesday, March 11, 2008

English

I have to declare that I'm not looking forward to the weekend. For once...

150 pages of copyrighting of the final report which everyone had been slogging for for the past 1 year. not that my english is that powerful, but as the overall secretariat, i just had to do the final vetting through to make sure that sentences flow and paragraphs are integrated.

Not that i'm atas but as I vetted through some of the reports, it is shocking that peoples' english can be so jialatz.

The classic example of bad english was I had to take a deep breath, and rattle through a sentence full of grammatical errors which lasted like 5 full lines. 5 lines in 1 sentence..without any punctuation. imagine the amount of copyediting i had to do.

having said that, that person with poor english is of directorial level. These people can really use bombustic buzz words related to his/her specialisation but putting those cheem words together is another issue altogether.

The moral of the story: Those in higher management need not have a good command of English as long as their subbordinates can do the job.

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