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by uscate » Thu, 18 Apr 2013 6:21 am
JR8 -
I wasn't at all surprised by the mangling of the English language in this letter. I'm new to Singapore and can't work, so granted my experience is limited, but I've seen some "formal" emails from my sig other's workplace and was at first mortified, but am now just mystified. These are all college educated professionals with (most of them) having significant professional level work experience. The people in his office are primarily Singaporean Citizens. And yet their written and verbal communication skills are more in line with those of a person whose primary language and educational background took place in a country whose first language is something other than English. His assistant, who has a college degree from some Sing college and 5 years of work experience, wrote a memo that was so mangled as to be pretty much incoherent. When he called her on it, she said this was the way she was taught to write, and if he couldn't understand it, he should send her to a professional development class.
I'm just trying to live by the "their country, their rules" credo and not get too irritated by this crazy lack of ability and sense of entitlement in some people. I've got to figure, though, that their best and brightest must be working in an industry other than my sig other's.
Thanks lynx for the suggestion
