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Re: how do we make the IETF working language work?

2014-03-12 11:50:17
If I may step out of the bikeshed for a moment, the editing part is
much harder than using whatever software checks in the edits.

My wife has a steady side job editing (or often rewriting) theses for
foreign graduate students.  These students are plenty smart, and they
know their topic, but they are mostly from east Asia and their English
grammar is not good.

Editing these is a lot of work, and invariably requires multiple
passes to go back and ask what they meant and rewrite the parts that
need it.  This is something that IETFers with good English can do, but
it's significant work, and the final document is different enough from
the original that Word-style diff marks would only tell you that a
whole lot has changed.

R's,
John