MrPedantic  +  322637 Wed, 31 Jan 07 11:33 PM  Anonymous wrote: It would depend on what I needed editing. <thumbs up> MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 12,592 ...opella forensis / adducit febris...

	anita_a  +  324733 Mon, 05 Feb 07 06:14 PM  Don't you think that the question itself is biased? Now why would anybody want to go to a 15 year old native english speaker, also a school drop out, instead of going to a prof for editing? How does it matter which country he is from as long as he is qualified to teach English? We are not definitely talking about spoken english but written. So ,what is the big deal of being a native or a non-native speaker as long as the qualifications prove that he can write english well (which an english professor definitely would.)? anita_a Joined on Tue, Jul 27 2004 Sunny California Regular Member 822 Cheers,Anita

	milky  +  324844 Mon, 05 Feb 07 11:34 PM <Now why would anybody want to go to a 15 year old native english speaker, also a school drop out, instead of going to a prof for editing? > The question was first asked by an Indian professor of English. He was so *** at the way native speakers, of whatever educational background, are cited as greater expert users than people such as he. He detests the term, native speaker. milky

	MrPedantic  +  324870 Tue, 06 Feb 07 01:02 AM Of course, he's an "expert user" too, in his own first language. So the term doesn't imply an absolute hierarchy. In practical terms, I still prefer Anon's response: if you were sensible, you would ask the professor about some things, and the 15-year-old about others. (You might even ask both.) MrP MrPedantic

	Marvin A.  +  324898 Tue, 06 Feb 07 02:52 AM >> In practical terms, I still prefer Anon's response: if you were sensible, you would ask the professor about some things, and the 15-year-old about others. (You might even ask both.) << Well, whatever it is, it's going to be a humdinger book, if you have such a dismal choice for editor. I suppose the publisher is a dead chimpanzee, and the distributor a horse? Marvin A. Joined on Fri, Dec 8 2006 Regular Member 638

	milky  +  325051 Tue, 06 Feb 07 09:47 AM <In practical terms, I still prefer Anon's response: if you were sensible, you would ask the professor about some things, and the 15-year-old about others. (You might even ask both.)> Why would you want to ask the professor about some things and not all things? milky

	milky  +  325053 Tue, 06 Feb 07 09:49 AM <Well, whatever it is, it's going to be a humdinger book, if you have such a dismal choice for editor.> Why dismal? milky