Re: English vs American English etc

Dear Pax and other Friends,

Please do not make such statements to the origins of the people etc at this forum.
Think twice before making such statements. for example, "The folks from India and Pakistan have acquired their English from the British. This is not the idiom we Americans are used to." in the following email. English is not the language of Engineers. Drawings the language of engineers. These may be in any language.

If you make and then somebody having good knowledge of history can say, " Indians and Pakistanis acquired their English from British but who are so called 'Americans'? - the colonised people from all over the world or Europe. "Americans itself are not originally Americans." then do not get angry and start fighting/arguing for such a non-piping related issues.

With best regards.

Tushar Zope
One of the 10 Moderators

jcluf <jcluf@yahoo.com> wrote:

The folks from India and Pakistan have acquired their English from the British. This is not the idiom we Americans are used to.

However some posts in various engineering forums as well as inquiries to the B31.3 code committee are often times written by people who use either form as a tertiary language.

What I advise the members of this group to do would be to restate the question as you perceive it and then add your response.

Now to the folks from the other side of the world…. We Americans have seen a large amount of our economy disappear to other parts of the world including where you live. So naturally there will be hard feelings from people here.

What I cannot abide by is any kind of work that leaves here based solely upon price, which then subsequently is poorly done by somebody else. And if you couple that with the fact that some of the questions I have seen repeatedly in this and other forums are by people who are not qualified to do the work they are doing so cheaply well you can figure out where some bad feelings arise from.

Pax

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    Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:15:08 +0700     From: Ferry Triyana <ftriyana@oiltools-batam.com> Subject: Re: English vs American English etc.

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Pax,
I've seen a lot of people who can not speak and/or write English properly, but they can performed many tasks assigned to them with a result that even a pro would accept it.

I also have seen some Americans that claimed themself as a pro, and then proved to have less knowledges and experiences than local engineers (who can not speak English properly). And to add more in this unfairness story, these Americans' salary is 5 - 10 times bigger than local professional engineers.

Would this fact still arising some hard feelings from fellow Americans?

Rgrds,
Ferry Triyana
Batam Island - Indonesia

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Wed Feb 23 23:09:00 2005