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Posted Dec 8, 2011 15:38 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Press releases by ekj
Parent article: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 released

Communication is more than written English, it may not even happen in English at all.

Feel free to substitute $YOUR_NATIVE_LANGUAGE for English in my arguments.

Why force everyone, even the people who do -not- care about English-skill, to consider it anyway, because you put some fraction of it into every other grade ?

Because communication in $YOUR_NATIVE_LANGUAGE is vital. You can be a brilliant physicist, but if you can't communicate your ideas and discoveries, your brilliance is wasted.

I'm saying that your level of English-skill, should be reflected in your *English* grade.

Yes, of course. But if your communication skills in $YOUR_NATIVE_LANGUAGE are poor, you should lose some marks in all subjects that require communication in $YOUR_NATIVE_LANGUAGE.


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