Re: Wanted: BAD Writing

Subject: Re: Wanted: BAD Writing
From: "Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:17:32 -0500


OK, now you've done it. I'm seeing images of the green plastic soldiers in Toy Story making their way across the road.

Speaking of bad writing, I get the most practice in editing the marketese that appears on some of our web pages. Unfortunately, I cannot include any of the examples I've re-written, since I usually get a crack at it AFTER the content (often called "verbage") has gone to the translators and "it's going to be too expensive to have it done over."

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Is fearr socrú dá dhonacht ná dlí dá fheabhas.
It's better to solve the problem than to improve the law.
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From: "Karen L. Zorn" <klzorn -at- zorntech -dot- com>

Road sign in Wyoming: Game Crossing.

Of course, with my imagination I saw Scrabble, Monopoly, checkers, dominoes,
and many decks of Old Maid cards casually bouncing across the highway.


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