1067. Submitted on 2005/12/12, 11.17 h by :
Stuitende correctie-service
One of the graduate students working with American Journal Experts has recently read your article [...] in Journal of Virology. They found your paper while reading the literature for their field, and were impressed by the quality of the research and the thought behind your article. They suggested we contact you because you published from a country where English is not the primary spoken language.
I assume 'They' refers to this 'one of the graduate students'? And did they/he/she really read it? Or did they just scan a list of Pubmed papers for the presence of non-English addresses? Were they really impressed by the thought behind my article, or by the vast amount of grammatical errors it harbored, as one would expect from a service such as yours? One wonders how many compelling grammatical errors could have eluded several rounds of peer reviewing and page proofing at the Journal of Virology printing department.
As you may know, language mistakes are commonly found in manuscripts written by non-native English speaking authors, and these mistakes often distract the reader from otherwise excellent research.
This is a rather generalized statement. In which way does it apply to my otherwise carefully monitored manuscript?
We are an association of Ph.D. graduate students from America's Top 10 Research Universities
So you are from America's Top 10 Research Universities (why all the capitals?). From which countries exactly? Are Canadian, or other semi- or non-English American countries involved?
My department is located in The Netherlands. Indeed, the Dutch are a non-English-speaking people. However, I assume that you, as experts, are also aware that the English language has evolved from Celtic, Saxxon and French and that, consequently, the closest ethymological relatives of present-day English are the Dutch, Frysian, German and Scandinavian languages. I would like to add a generalized statement to yours: Researchers from the The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden are quite confident about writing in English. Most of them will not need your service.
But thanks for your spam mail offer,
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P.S. Ja ik maak ook spel- en stijlfouten, maar ik vraag er tenminste geen geld voor.
1. Kittekat commented on 2005/12/12, 11.43 h:
Yes, I'm also an American Journal Expert, you don't say now do you