RE: Chattiness in manuals

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

I saw something the other day that said, "Use the mouse (not the furry
>kind.)" It just made me want to hit something really hard.

<laughs>  I quite like manuals that give me the feel of a real person
somewhere out there on the other end, but that would have made even +me+
twitch.

As an attempt at humour, it's patronising as all hell.

S.

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Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author

exony

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