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Hi all,
Just thought I'd share my bad writing sample with you.
I'm working on one of several manuals we're writing
for a new software system. I was just going through
and editing a few hundred pages and found this lovely thing
I wrote in the glossary:
"A controlled vault refers to a vault that is controlled."
That's it. No supporting statements, nothing. Ha! Ha! Ha!
Thank goodness I caught it before final release.
Take care.
Shelly La Rock
larock -at- tycho -dot- arh -dot- cdc -dot- com
Control Data System Arden Hills, MN
