RE: Hearing (or seeing) what isn't there, or hearing AND seeing, but it makes no sense.

[Watson Laughton <WLaughton -at- orphan -dot- com>]

>>But if you are the system administrator of a large box that just arrived
from IBM, 
>>and you open up the manual and see a reference to an AMD, before too long
you will 
>>probably know exactly what an AMD is. 

Yes, but if you are the system administrator of a large box that just
arrived from IBM, and you open up the manual and see a reference to a
__fan__, you will know what it is right from the get-go. Without having to
go to the glossary or look at a picture to find out what the dickens they're
talking about.  

And isn't that what it's all about?  If one could just cut-and-paste
engineering gobbledygook right into the documentation, who would need
technical writers?

"Air Moving Device" my patootie.  If I ever buy something that comes with a
manual that makes reference to an Air Moving Device when they mean a "fan",
I'm boxing it up and sending it right back.  And inasmuch as "Air" and
"Moving" serve as a compound adjective in this case, shouldn't they be
hyphenated?  Woof.

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