RE: Friday Poll Idea (WAS: In love with a word)

[wendy_lewis -at- goodyear -dot- com]

I used to put bits of casual text into my documents, that were supposed to 
be formal, and were going to end users. Not quite as bad as Bill and 
Melissa were talking about. The problem was that it was a small company 
with absolutely no document review. I couldn't buy a review from an 
engineer, manager, project leader, or even the marketing guy. I put them 
in to see if anyone out there was reading. So as a partial revenge, at 
release time, I didn't remove them. Was only caught a couple times by the 
field service guy that was trying to help a customer with an overly obtuse 
feature, that even he couldn't figure out without the manual. 

Wendy Lewis
Technical Writer
wendy_lewis at goodyear dot com



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I actually was not paying close attention to something I was writing 
earlier 
and put "screwed" in there as in "if you do this you will be screwed" 
Luckily I edit myself!!! :)

>From: "Chad LaCroix" Reply-To: chad -at- architext-usa -dot- com To: "Bill Swallow" 
>,"TECHWR-L" Subject: RE: Friday Poll Idea (WAS: In love with a word) 
Date: 
>Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:52:43 -0500
>
>Bill said -->
>
>"Personally I'd like to write in an extremely informal tone, using cuss 
>words at appropriate times and being able to write phrases such as "Now, 
I 
>know you'll think this is stupid, but trust me, this is the only way to 
get 
>this [censored] application to do this operation, so pay attention, you!" 

>without getting into trouble. ;-)"
>
>---------------
>
>I agree with this completely Bill.  Not only would you be able to get the 

>message across more adamantly but reading the documentation would be more 

>interesting as well.
>
>I recently came upon a website that I thought was a joke at first.  The 
>website actually contains content that is in similar fashion to what Bill 

>describes above.  No joke though...it is an actual company that sells 
>software!  I'm all about informal, realist communication so I was quite 
>impressed.
>
>Happy Friday!
>
>~Chad
>
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