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So, that will never happen. The quality of writing coming out of wherever is not going to be the same as that of a native English speaker. I've seen many documentation projects outsourced to non-english speaking countries and the quality is consistently awful. The product that comes out of there is worse than nothing because its completely incomprehensible. My last quarter was entirely devoted to rewriting examples of such documentation.

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> The quality of writing coming out of wherever is not going to be the same as that of a native English speaker

Any evidence supporting your statement? Or is it just pure anecdote. To counter your point: there is a long list of writers with accolades in writing (in English) who are not native speakers.

There are people who are just poor at language, native or learned. Also, there's a class of errors that only exists among 'native speakers', the most grating to me, is "would of"

   its completely incomprehensible.

It's not its.

With love,

Your non English speaking 3rd world citizen.

We could do that all day. For example, it's "non-English" not "non English." I don't think anyone expects perfectly refined grammar in one-off comment on the Internet.

I'm sure you can write English very well and there are probably many people like you (maybe even yourself) who can write far better than I can. It's just in my experience such people are few and far between where outsourcing is concerned.

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