Re: Techwriting style, speech patterns, etc.

["Karen E. Black" <kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Interesting idea. You have only one style of thinking, therefore you have 
only one style of writing. I have a number of thinking and writing and 
speaking styles, depending on what I'm thinking or writing or speaking 
about. My best attempt, though, is to use fewer words than more, to crowd 
the sentences instead of letting them roam free, and to clip their tails.

Is it meaningful? Is it elegant? Is it productive? Let your fingers do the 
sitting.

If someone else is doing the writing, I don't corral their prose -- but I do 
trim the excess where possible. It ain't po-try, after all, and if I don't 
trim it it doesin't fit on the page.

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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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