Re: Worst. Sentence. Ever.

Subject: Re: Worst. Sentence. Ever.
From: Yves JEAUROND <jingting -at- rogers -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 08:37:25 -0400 (EDT)

As a colleague once put it: "That is not a non-issue." :-)

Funny how some writers (?) don't always see when redundancy and
repetition are not needed. In almost every [French] litterature course
that I took, an effort was made to name and characterize all forms of
repetition (good or bad) as figures of speech.
Knowing this really helps == remove == the stuff, educate
"wannabee writers" :-), or to point out to engineers the technical
aspects of our work: stylistics.
Afterwards, I found a neat, useful list of the forms of repetition
in Lanham's _A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms_ (UCP, 1991),
and, if you read French fluently, in Mazaleyrat & Molinié's
_Vocabulaire de la stylistique_ (puf, 1989). No they don't list
any Bush-isms :-)

YJ

Dave Kerschbaum <dave -at- smackdabdesign -dot- com> a écrit :
I recently came across this one:

"Keyword unselction is done by selecting an already selected keyword."


On 5/23/07, Steve Cavanaugh wrote:
>
> Just saw this one: "4. Load software to install operational software,
> which verifies that operational software can be loaded."
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