You’re lucky… From what I’ve heard, requiem sharks usually search upwards for those high-calorie seal-snacks. Just keep your suit clean, if you know what I mean!

Doing great, yeah, we need to hang out soon. Missed the last few of your legendary August beach parties.

Maui’s great this time of year. Any time of year actually!

All these shark attacks happening and I am just 2 days away from a scuba vacation in Hawaii.

Hope you are doign well buddy, long time no talk.

-Dave

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Right now I recommend you wait a few weeks until Microsoft can fix this problem and avoid installing any Windows Updates.
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More information on this problem please see these articles:
PC Magazine: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,2302371,00.asp
The Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/09/windows_xp_sp3_reboots_crashes/
more detailed info: http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2008/05/08/does-your-amd-based-computer-boot-after-installing-xp-sp3.aspx

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Thank you again for your detailed post!

What an amazing dilemma you bring up - that the corruption of the English language is not discernable even in lectures.

Languages are like that - if you don’t use them you lose them. As we used to say in the military, it’s a ‘perishable’ skill set.

Happy as it is for those concerned, the more one knows of correct English, the more uncomfortable one is with this trend. As the lyric goes: “I’d rather hear a choir singing flat.”
I once, this was back in 1996, sat through the lecture of a man who had his prepositions, conjunctions, and even some verbs confused. Every sentence he uttered was ambiguous and confusing. But what was really interesting was that the rest of the class had no problem understanding him. This was because their English was at the same level as his. Instead of saying, “The way the compiler handles this is that it allocates a block of memory to hold the value of the variable,” he might say something like “The way the compiler handles this is because it allocates a block of memory to hold the value of the variable.” For the others the wrong word ‘because’ did not pose a problem, but it threw me off course.
So too we have a growing audience of people who cannot discern between correct and incorrect English as long as the material is intelligently arranged and easily navigable.

Because of India’s large population, one would also be able to find many who write correctly or are in the correctable stage. The problem is not the unavailability of the good, but in the need for weeding out the others. Of course, as pointed out, the others will also probably find their corner in the field.

As for children left behind by the Indian educational system, it depends on what your vantage point is. For poor children in a village or a slum, the corporation schools provide their only hope for a better life. Many children from these schools do much better than their parents. But if we compare their education to ours, they are left behind. But these children will not even hear about technical writing.

For our purposes we must focus on those who come out of English schools in the big cities. An average student from any of the many good English schools in places like Bangalore, Chennai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Poone, and so on, is a potential candidate for technical communication. I am not sure of what you have in mind when you say post-secondary, but it will have to be after the tenth standard or high school. Another point to note is that unless the qualification is a degree offered by a university, it is not likely to interest Indians. we have an obsession for university degrees.