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Re: How many technical writers are there in the world?
Subject:Re: How many technical writers are there in the world? From:Stephen Victor <svictor -at- HOUSTON -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 23 May 1997 12:07:15 -0500
Wayne J. Douglass wrote:
>
> At 02:16 PM 5/23/97 +0200, john.cornellier wrote:
>
> >CRT, a French subset of INTECOM, is having a beano 10-11 October
> >in an Abbey near Paris. They have a number of international English-speaking
> >speakers and a commercial expo. I'm not a member, just the messenger: I found
> >some bumf about it yest. in my mailmailbox. Any more info req'd, write me at
> >
> To this North American ear, Ebonics makes more sense than this passage. An
> object lesson in dialect/language/whatever. Beano? Bunf? Yo, what's goin'
> down? This be wack.
Oh, I thought it was wonderful! It sounds like something out of P.G.
Wodehouse. A few "pip pip tally ho eh what?"s would have made it just
perfect. :)
Steve
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