Re: Let the grammar wars begin!

["Chris Morton" <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Style guide choice would be another. Our illustrious PhD team leader, who
has published one book (edited by someone else), came onboard several months
back only to shove the APA (that's the American Psychological Assn) style
down our throats. He had never heard of "that Chicago manual," to which it
(jokingly) became referred by the rest of us.

We ultimately convinced him that "the book published in Chicago,"
supplemented by the M$ techwriters' guide, was the way to go. We have had to
provide citations anytime we disagree with one of his edits!

> Chris


On 4/17/08, Paul Kretschmer <Paul -dot- Kretschmer -at- yardi -dot- com> wrote:
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> What are the best topics for starting grammar wars?
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> Just wondering...
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> Subject: RE: Tool to clean up MS Word (2003)
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> > >  How many technical writers
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> > >  another technical writer is joking?
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> > One, and countless others to interject their
> > own thoughts, emotions and theories if there
> > isn't a good grammar war going on.
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> You mean: "... if there _is not_ a good grammar war going on."
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