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Dan Hall offered: >>My opinion only...
>>Technical writers, with regard to grammatical issues:
>>* Should, in favor of confusing the reader, avoid standard usage in all
>>cases.
I think:
Any technical writer who has to resort to ungrammatical nonstandard usages
to confuse the reader is clearly not trying hard enough.
Jane Carnall
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