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Subject:RE: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words From:"Samuel Choy" <schoy -at- us -dot- ibm -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:55:59 -0600
I'm going to get out of lurking mode to tell this story.
At a company I once contracted at (name withheld to protect the guilty)
another writer fought bitterly with an engineer over the correct
terminology for a part described in the manual she was writing. The
engineer insisted that she use the official technical nomenclature: Air
Moving Device (with the acronym AMD). My writer friend wanted to call it
what is was: a fan.
The engineer won. Since he was also the technical approver, "fan" was
officially banned from the manual.
Samuel Choy
My opinions, few as they may be, are mine and not IBMs.
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