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Subject:Grammar on techwr-l? From:geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA Date:Mon, 7 Oct 1996 08:51:34 -0500
Eric the List Owner has got a point. Grammar and skilled
writing is certainly important to our jobs as writers, but
it's not something that we can discuss only on techwr-l:
the copyediting-l list expressly serves this purpose.
Personally, I find the 200K+ of message per day on the
copyediting list about my limit (they just don't make
enough hours in the day), and if we added a comparable
volume to techwr-l to discuss grammar issues, I'd have to
drop this list.
Bottom line? If we must discuss grammar here, make it
appropriate to the context: what is the tech. writing
tie-in? If it's "just" a grammar question, take it to
copyediting-l. In case you're interested in getting to that
list. Send a message:
subscribe copyediting-l [your name, no brackets]
to the following address:
listproc -at- cornell -dot- edu
And prepare to be buried!
--Geoff Hart @8^{)} geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.
