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>It's now obvious to me that I don't know the current buzzwords >which lead to the secret handshakes which lead to job offers. >I've exhausted the archives and the Web looking for current >terminology. Can anyone clue me in?
Are you sure you _want_ to be clued in? I can't help thinking that
people who throw around terms like "System Development Life Cycle
documentation" may have--how can I put it politely?--strayed from the
main point of technical writing?
(Sorry if that sounds harsh, but I was bitten by several books by George
Orwell when I was young, and developed a strong allergy to unnecessary
jargon. Symptoms are high blood pressure, vomiting, unfocused eyes, and
a repeated urge to thwack myself on the side of the head in disbelief.
The only known remedy is mega-doses of clear, well-organized prose)
"Richard had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly,
but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once."
--Neil Gaiman, "Neverwhere"
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