I second this. It can take multiple man-hours among native speakers to craft an email in a politically-sensitive, high-stakes professional environment. I worke

I second this. It can take multiple man-hours among native speakers to craft an email in a politically-sensitive, high-stakes professional environment. I worked under an executive who would keep her people (inner-circle advisors, direct reports, etc.) huddled around her desk all day as she slowly wrote and rewrote email responses to her boss(es) and executive peers. I hated having to go to her office for things because it was so easy to get pulled into that circle and feel like there was no escape. I'm a native speaker who has attained near-perfect scores on the verbal sections of the SAT and GRE, and I like writing, but I'm still a very slow writer myself.