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Subject:Re: You're not the only person who can write From:Shankar <ss_rajanala -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:38:07 -0800 (PST)
--- Andrew Plato <gilliankitty -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> As you may or may not know (or care), I've
> become a rather passive member of
> this list lately. This is mostly because I'm a
> busy enslaving more drones at my
> death camp in Oregon.
>
When people say engineers should not write, they
mean engineers-who-cannot-write must not.
Also, anyone who can write well is a writer by
definition (maybe not by designation). Thus, an
engineer who is also a writer is NOT covered in
the "Engineers must not write." attitude.
It does cover ex-writers who take up a bunch of
bandwidth to say: "If engineers can write well,
why not?"
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blessed indeed are the meek
for they shall inherit the earth
when the mighty migrate to mars
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