"it generally seems to me to be non-natives who are the worst at it!"

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Would you expect anything of me other than a rant? ;-)

More and more, I've been reading how companies are out-sourcing development to countries where the work force is willing to work for less compensation. I often wonder whether this slothful illiteracy has propagated to resumes, proposals, specifications, design documentation, coding, etc.

If people are too lazy to write correctly, why would I think they could design correctly? Maybe since our language is degrading (some say evolving), our development process is too. Let's see, that would be 5% for specs, 5% for design, 10% for implementation, leaving 80% of the time for the test/hack-test/hack iterations before release. Heaven help us!

Oh, and how I'd love to inherit some design where everything is IM-speak/dude-speak/SMS-speak! ***NOT***
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Posters, do you want to be taken seriously? If so, then write literately.

Responders, are you considering a response to an illiterate post? Simply don't do it. How does that saying go? "Just say no to... [name of bad behavior goes here]"