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> I was assuming that the original poster and the subsequent ones
> using "exorcise" instead of "excise" were having a joke. Now I'm not sure.
> This is not a case of English having different words for the same thing.
> Discussions about exorcism should be kept to talk.religeon.misc in future!
I disagree. That post was not meant to be a piece of technical
writing. In informal writing, I like to see colorful simile and
metaphor. I've only been a technical writer for six months, but I
have had other writing interests, including letters, for years.
If I stay at this job long enough, will I start radioing back to Earth
that Gene Wolf's use of language isn't precise enough?
