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Subject:Re: A question of grammar vs. brevity. From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:11:50 -0700
I strive to be brief when I can be and verbose when
I have to be. As long as the results are consistent
with that practice I don't worry too much about
whether they are rigidly consistent with each other.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>
> The reason I hesitate to do that is that the heading would then be
> inconsistent with the other headings in the document,
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