Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 5 Oct 1993 to 6 Oct 1993

Subject: Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 5 Oct 1993 to 6 Oct 1993
From: "Louis Rondeau, Redacteur technique" <LOUIS -at- LAGANG -dot- LACITEC -dot- ON -dot- CA>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 16:54:20 EST


> Our student chapter of the STC here at Tech would like to enlist
> your help in rounding up quotable quotes about writing...of all
> types...by people who do it daily.

> Thomas Barker dittb -at- ttacs -dot- ttu -dot- edu
> Technical Communication Program
> Texas Tech Universtiy
> Lubbock, TX


Thomas:

This one is in French. It's by 17th Century poet Nicolas Boileau,
and is probably one of the most often-quoted French saying that deals
with writing. (Two bad, the accents won't probably show).

"Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement et les mots pour le dire
viennent aisement."

Which (very, very) roughly translates into :

"You can write about it if you understand it, and if you understand
it, the words will come easily".

Salut! Louis R.


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Redacteur technique/Technical Writer 2465, boul. St-Laurent
Ressources informatiques Ottawa (Ontario)
e-mail: louis -at- lacitec -dot- on -dot- ca K1G 5H8
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