native speaker copy editors

Without enough qualified ESL instructors, she said students who are non-native-speakers often fall behind academically. And that could be a growing concern as the demographics of the nation continue to shift. There are currently more than 40 million Spanish speakers throughout the nation — a number ...

When I told my friend, a copy editor and native English speaker about this recently, she said the following about the London gal: “Wuell, zoes she spake laikh zis (Well, does she speak like this)?” imitating a British accent perfectly. This made me laugh. It got me thinking, though. When did Indonesians who ...

This was not the first nice dining establishment whose menu I've defaced with a copy editor's pen. At authentically “ethnic” restaurants, for example, it can be a hoot to point out howlers; we don't expect non-native speakers to get everything right. But chefs and front office managers should learn which way ...

Even among native speakers, there are many arbitrary grammatical rules that we must learn as students writing academic papers, and as a copy editor for The Daily Californian, I have had to learn many peculiar new rules as well. This was the hardest part of learning how to copy edit. Every one of us that ...

We forget that our idioms and colloquialisms are nonsense to many non-native speakers, and this includes most bots. Put another way, bots are built on expectations and probability. Through its AI's NLP, the bot can weight words for importance and inform its predictive model -- in essence guessing what ...

We require that our lexicographers be native speakers of English for a very practical reason: That's the language we focus on, and you need mastery over all its idioms ... When you finish defining, you must copyedit; when you finish copyediting, you must proofread; when you finish proofreading, you must proofread again, ...

You will hardly ever hear a native English speaker say, “Run dog brown the.” You can, however, certainly find native speakers of certain American English dialects saying, “Y'all might could go.” These distinctions are what linguists are interested in. On the other hand, if we were to speak to our friends using ...

Once I had a copy editor try to standardize the dialogue of characters who were non-native speakers of English. That experience was bizarre and frustrating because these people were supposed to speak as if they were mentally translating what they said from another language. But I was glad whenever ...

The tweet comes from copyeditor Deanna Hoak, who posted a screenshot of a short thread from Tumblr on March 3. ... Then, finally, a third user noted something their English teacher had said about this kind of language: “What my teacher was really floored about was that… we're 'native speakers' of a ...