RE: Poll: Is technical writing a sellout or fallback career?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Guy K. Haas wrote: 

> Time was when our Silicon Valley area clerks did ask
> 
>    "Do you want paper, or plastic?"
> 
> but more and more of late, I'm hearing no comma.
> 
> If I were to use capitalization to represent rising intonation, I'd
render
> the appropriate query as
> 
>    "Do you want PAper, or PLAStic?"
> 
>     di di  di   DAH di di DAH di   (think Morse code)
> 
> but what keeps coming to my ears of late is more like
> 
>    "Do you want paper-or-PLASTIC?"
> 
>     di di  di   di di  di DAH DAH

I'm incredulous. The clerks out there really say "Do you want..."?

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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