On Mar 16, 2008, at 7:23 AM, Vitaliy wrote:

> I still think this is getting blown out of proportion. I would give  
> whoever wrote the job ad the benefit of a doubt. My first guess is,  
> "Must read, write, speak English" sounded too plain, so she spiced  
> it up with an adjective.

Indeed.  Or even "current regionalization standards for company  
documents require that the word "English", when referring to  
language, not be used without the appropriate regional  
qualifier."  ("But it makes us sound like a bunch of racists!?" ...   
"Current company standards require ...")

  :-(
BillW

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