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Subject:Rules to Write By From:Gwen Gall <ggall -at- CA -dot- ORACLE -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 28 Dec 1994 12:12:50 EST
In contribution to the "rules" thread (came across this on another list):
Paul Grice's (1975) "maxims of communication" are of
potential use here. They delineate that all communication must be:
1. of the proper quality (use a symbol set I can understand).
2. of a tenable quantity (don't bludgeon me with it (like this email is
becoming)).
3. of relevance (what's a "-23" error? or why are you telling me that
there's a problem with my "COMMDLG.DLL" file?).
4. of the proper manner (in a way that the user is responsive to it).
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Cheers,
Gwen (ggall -at- ca -dot- oracle -dot- com)
Oracle MultiDimension
"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and
nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."
