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- From: cbarber@bbn.com (Chris Barber)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: SE going offshore?
- Message-ID: <4228@litchi.bbn.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:34:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.170345.29923@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> <2282@sdrc.COM>
- Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc.
- Lines: 36
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- In article <2282@sdrc.COM> spsisira@sdrc.COM (spsisira) writes:
- >mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us wrote:
- >: It may depend on what you mean by `better.' If you mean that the Indian
- >: student can understand and write Standard English competently, you may be
- >: write. Oral communication also suffers from an `accent barrier' and not
- > ^^^^^|
- > | I think you are a good example of what is being discussed in
- > this thread. Who taught you English. May be self taught.
- >
- >: all people who can write Standard English well can be understood by someone
- >: from Brooklyn or Atlanta or Lake Woebegone. Heck, not all people from
- >: Brooklyn can be understood in Atlanta!
- >
- >As far as software development is concerned I do not see how the `accent'
- >play any role. Afterall all you read is an ASCII string. ^^^^^^^|
- ^^^| |
- It is ordinarily considered to be bad form to point
- out grammatical and spelling mistakes in an other's
- post, but if you are going to do it, make sure that
- your own is correct!
-
- I hope you are joking. Of course accent is important! As long as you have
- to communicate verbally with the people you work with, your accent will be
- important. Software developers usually have to be able to communicate
- effectively with their fellow engineers, with management, and sometimes with
- clients. In the USA, this means that any accent that deviates far enough
- from standard "broadcast" english will slow down communications and
- consequently lower productivity. If someone's accent is different enough,
- it can lead to a situation where other people do not want to talk to the
- person because it is too much work to understand him. I know that this is
- not fair, but it is also what happens in the real world.
-
-
- --
- Christopher Barber
- (cbarber@bbn.com)
-