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Re: stupid question: how do you spell that thing we do?
Subject:Re: stupid question: how do you spell that thing we do? From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:28:57 -0700
Goober asked:
> So if it's an informal communication, why does it matter?
1) because I value precision and clarity, and all the options I've
explored seemed lacking in that department
2) because I'm a big advocate of conversational writing, and continually
seek ways to capture my own fabulous mode of speech with the written word
2) because some tech writers I correspond with tend to be nitpicky and
quarrelsome, apparently in an attempt to glibly assert some smug sense of
superiority by constantly questioning why I would even want to do the
things I do. Dontcha just hate people like that? <g>
Keith Cronin
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