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Re: ABCNews.com article on writing and the workplace
Subject:Re: ABCNews.com article on writing and the workplace From:"Janet Swisher" <swisher -at- enthought -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:03:10 -0500
"diotima" <diotima -at- myway -dot- com> wrote:
> eric wrote:
> <<Rather, "the demand has gotten greater.">>
> "Demand has increased" ?
> Seems the director should do some brushing up of her own.... <lol>
>
> funny that that's what you noticed. what i noticed was what she said
> just prior
> to that:
> "There's no way to say that writing has gotten worse," said Susan
> Traiman....
> hmm. looks to me like she found a way to say it!
Looks to me like she was attempting to create parallelism. She unfortunately
chose to base it on the phrase "has gotten <comparative adjective>". To
would have been more concise and less awkward to say "has worsened ... has
increased", though the parallelism wouldn't have been as strong. At least
she was trying to do something write ;-)
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