Re: How to deal with incorrect editing

Subject: Re: How to deal with incorrect editing
From: "Chuck Martin" <cm -at- writeforyou -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 09:42:02 -0800



"Goober Writer" <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote in message
news:223719 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
>
> > That's what conventions of grammar are about --
> > communicating.
>
> No. Grammar is syntax. Communication is message. It
> doesn't matter what the syntax is if the message is
> wrong. You can clearly communicate without conventions
> of grammar.
>
> For example:
>
> 1. Boot Windows XP.
> 2. Start.
> 3. All Programs.
> 4. Microsoft Word.
>
> Did you understand that?
>
I did. Grandma, who just got her first computer this Christmas, is unlikely
to.

"Boot?" What size? :)

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