Re: gEDA-user: Help with PCB

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>

At 06:54 18/09/2003, you wrote:

>Xtian Xultz wrote:
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>>.... and as everybody can see, my english is a piece of crap. So,
>>Im writing the document in portuguese......
>>
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>Its been my experience, that the very best scientists and engineers 
>english is crap, even those born and raised in England or the US.
>
>Actually, from what I have seen, you present your ideas very clearly.

Agreed. But not all engineers and scientists write badly - my wife is a 
top-flight scientist, and writes extremely well, and I'm an engineer who 
writes English well enough to make pin-money out of editing scientific 
papers written in English by Dutch native-speakers to make the papers read 
more or less as if they were written by an English native-speaker (I was 
born and raised in Tasmania).

I don't know any Portuguese or Spanish, but I'd be happy to go over Xtian 
Xultz's translation into English and recast the sentences so that they 
ended up looking like regular English - I'm un-employed at moment, and I 
could tackle the job more or less full-time.

I've got Microsoft Word 97 on the Windows partition of my computer, and 
that is the word processor that I've mostly used in recent years, but the 
Linux partition is running Mandrake 9.0, and there are a bunch of word 
processors available there.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen