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I didn't quite (or is it quiet?) get the 'automated word processing' part....
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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Hood
Sent: 19-12-2009 04:16:29
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com; quills -at- airmail -dot- net
Subject: Re: The word for today
By golly, you're right. You win two fictional cookies, complete with spurious chocolate chips.
--- On Fri, 12/18/09, quills -at- airmail -dot- net <quills -at- airmail -dot- net> wrote:
> From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net <quills -at- airmail -dot- net>
> Subject: Re: The word for today
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 4:50 PM
> how about the more subtle "automated
> work processing"?
>
> Shouldn't it be word processing?
>
> Scott
>
> On 12/18/09 3:22 PM, Keith Hood wrote:
> > 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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