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Subject:RE: If you were making a FAQ... From:"Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riveraintech -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:39:04 -0400
I misread it the same way Gene did. It must be five o'clock somewhere.
-----Original Message-----
From: Porrello, Leonard
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 5:22 PM
To: Gene Kim-Eng; McLauchlan, Kevin
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: If you were making a FAQ...
I had to read it twice, and even then I had to assume the correct
reading. I wonder if any of our colleagues could diagram the sentence
and demonstrate that it is genuinely ambiguous.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 2:18 PM
To: McLauchlan, Kevin
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: If you were making a FAQ...
There was no humor intended.
However I see I was probably reading comprehension-challenged in taking
your question to mean that FAQ was going to be the primary product
documentation and you wanted to know if we would put it into online
help.
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