Writing for an International Audience
Blogging reaches an international audience, and often collopquialisms and slang don't work across cultures or with those who don't read English as a first language. Even the differences between English and American are truly confusing. In England, I believe "very fine" is less desirable than "fine" - I never would have guessed!
It's something I think about as I blog, and "think" I do a good job, perhaps because I've travelled pretty widely and deal with people from other cultures on at least a weekly basis. A quick search of the web didn't find many resouces for writing well for a diverse international group - anyone have any good references of links?
That said, I leave tomorrow for Russia. I'll be here Sunday. Notice the high temperature of the day - MINUS 45 F right now.
There is Internet access in Siberia of course, although I hear that packets get very slow at minus 20 degrees and the Internet freezes solid at minus 50 - I hope NOT to find out!
If I'm not blogging much the next 2-3 weeks, just assume I'm in Siberia, and the Internet has frozen solid.
It's something I think about as I blog, and "think" I do a good job, perhaps because I've travelled pretty widely and deal with people from other cultures on at least a weekly basis. A quick search of the web didn't find many resouces for writing well for a diverse international group - anyone have any good references of links?
That said, I leave tomorrow for Russia. I'll be here Sunday. Notice the high temperature of the day - MINUS 45 F right now.
There is Internet access in Siberia of course, although I hear that packets get very slow at minus 20 degrees and the Internet freezes solid at minus 50 - I hope NOT to find out!
If I'm not blogging much the next 2-3 weeks, just assume I'm in Siberia, and the Internet has frozen solid.
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 2:53 PM
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