RE: Can software have human attributes?

Subject: RE: Can software have human attributes?
From: Karen Markle <Karen -dot- Markle -at- SiliconAccess -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:17:59 -0700

Yeah. You shouldn't anthropomorphize your documents. They hate that.

Karen
Sra Technical Writer

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From: Lurker writer [mailto:lurker_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:14 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Can software have human attributes?


A wise, renowned technical communications author and consultant once said in

a presentation that "anthropomorphism has no place in technical writing..."



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