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Subject:Re: Perform vs. do From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sat, 12 Oct 2013 10:56:33 -0700
I think its wrong to use Simplified Technical English or other
restricted-vocabulary dialects for a general audience.
Documentation written using such dialects often reads as if it had
been written by a semi-literate non-native speaker, and can be harder
to understand than standard English. For example:
