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RE: Bullfighter diagnosis on post (was Re: Writing Corrective Actionsfor customers?)
Subject:RE: Bullfighter diagnosis on post (was Re: Writing Corrective Actionsfor customers?) From:Michael West <WestM -at- conwag -dot- com> To:"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:19:00 +1000
"Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com> wrote on 24/04/2008
02:45:54 AM:
> Really, Mike, you don't like, "Where one gets off dumping on people..."?
> I think it has a perfectly clear objective-correlative.
I didn't say I don't like it. I said I don't understand what it refers to.
To what does it refer, specifically, in the context of the subject thread?
What specific statement or expression in this discussion, in your opinion,
constitutes "dumping on people"?
> I think you forget that conversational email (which, by the way, is what
> Techwr-l is) is informal even if its matter is professional
No, I don't forget. I know conversational email when I see it, and
Techwr-l certainly is it. But conversational needn't mean
"incomprehensible."
> Perhaps "pissing-contest", as a metaphor, has a clearer
> objective-correlative for you?
Sorry, you've exceeded your hyphen allowance for this post.
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