Kalla satisfied with US visit
I guess they couldn't find a copy editor/proofreader. Gracious sakes, that is an embarrassment.
This is really an issue that most folks in RI do not seem to understand or see the importance of getting things right. I was doing research this week on Asian Internet development and came across the final documents from one of the recent Asia-Pacific ministerial meetings. Each country, via its minister, provided a "state of the Internet" paper for the conference, and while wading through dozens of perfectly written papers -- all in English -- from PNG, Laos, Japan, Thailand and Cambodia to Mexico, Mongolia, Malaysia and Myanmar, I was flabbergasted, and oddly kind of embarrassed, when I got to Indonesia's poorly written, mistake-laden paper that did not even address the issue, but instead begged for cash from the rich countries.
When will they see that language matters in this era of globalization? People make judgments all the time, and one read of something like these things can mean the difference between lots of FDI or little, as people gauge the government's seriousness and professionalism.
This is really an issue that most folks in RI do not seem to understand or see the importance of getting things right. I was doing research this week on Asian Internet development and came across the final documents from one of the recent Asia-Pacific ministerial meetings. Each country, via its minister, provided a "state of the Internet" paper for the conference, and while wading through dozens of perfectly written papers -- all in English -- from PNG, Laos, Japan, Thailand and Cambodia to Mexico, Mongolia, Malaysia and Myanmar, I was flabbergasted, and oddly kind of embarrassed, when I got to Indonesia's poorly written, mistake-laden paper that did not even address the issue, but instead begged for cash from the rich countries.
When will they see that language matters in this era of globalization? People make judgments all the time, and one read of something like these things can mean the difference between lots of FDI or little, as people gauge the government's seriousness and professionalism.