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Re: Need Your Opinions re Simplified English (Can I quote you?)

Subject: Re: Need Your Opinions re Simplified English (Can I quote you?)
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 18:49:04 -0400


John,

Fair enough. I may have misinterpreted your earlier post.

Dick

John Posada wrote:


Dick...I don't mean it as an extreme point of view. I'm not saying
that ya toss out all conventions and make it up as ya go along.
However, if I'm writing a marketing piece, I'll use language and
conventions appropriate for that audience. If I'm writing for a GenX
or Wired type of reader, I'll write using different conventions than
if I'm writing for a group of accountants or bankers. I'll write
command line UNIX programmer docs or MAN pages differently than an
online help for a novice GUI user. All of these writings conflict to
varying degree with my copy of Webster.

We're not talking ee cummings or James Joyce type of writing...just a
flavor of writing specific to a type of audience.





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