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Subject:Re: The word for today From:Wade Courtney <wade -dot- courtney -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TechWR List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:03:10 -0800
I have been accused of being a perp before ;), or at the very least an
instigator. <g>
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> I have a shelf full of SW whose docs IMO qualify as having been
> "perpetrated."
>
> I must admit, though, I've never considered the possibility that they might
> have
> been created by people specifically recruited for their abiliy to do this.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Keith Hood" <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>
> >I found this on the Monster web site. Let's see who's still awake: a
> notional
> >cookie will be awarded to the first person to spot the problem in this
> >description of job requirements, which is reproduced here verbatim.
> >
> > "Technical Writer,technical editor, document perpetration, desktop
> > publishing,automated work processing, Word, Excel, Report Writing"
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