RE: fwd: you or he/it

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: H Arnold
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:57 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: fwd: you or he/it
> 
> ... Too many pronouns might be hard for an ESL 
> audience to parse, even if it's grammatically 
> correct English.
> 

On the contrary, I would think that an ESL reader (as  Bill Swallow
suggested) might read "the user" as "not me".

>From the GNOME Documentation Style Guide chapter, "How to Write for
Translation": "Do not use personal pronouns other than *you*." [bold
face in original]

>From the IBM Style Guide: "When you are describing user actions, use a
second-person pronoun ('you')."

>From the www.plainlanguage.gov guideline, "Writing Reader-Friendly
Documents": "Use 'you' and other pronouns to speak directly to readers."

-- Dan Goldstein















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