RE: Yet another nitpicky style question

Subject: RE: Yet another nitpicky style question
From: "Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>
To: "'Brasel, Russell'" <russell -dot- brasel -at- hccredit -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:33:36 -0800

My response would probably go like, "Hey, Reader! So Personal Identification
Number Number doesn't sound repetitive to you? Hmm. I underestimated the
ability of readers to understand without excessive repetition. I shall
repeat. Hey, Reader!..."

Lauren

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> Behalf Of Brasel, Russell
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 6:56 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Yet another nitpicky style question
>
> Good morning, everyone!
>
> I'm currently creating definitions for 650+ database
> attributes, and I know someone down the road is going to say,
> "Hey, Writer! Shouldn't this be 'PIN number,' not just
> 'PIN'?" The same scenario applies for SSN. Both
> abbreviations appear frequently through the database, so I
> need to defend myself. Am I being overly anal-retentive?
> After all, Number is included in the abbreviation.
>
> Or perhaps I need more coffee, which is an easily solved problem.
>
> Russell Brasel
> Technical Writer
> Dent-A-Med, Inc. d/b/a The HELPCard
> russell -dot- brasel -at- hccredit -dot- com
>
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