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Subject:My survey of one says ... From:Cheryle Wiese <cjwiese -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 29 Jul 1997 11:40:46 PDT
<rant>... that good writers (Technical or otherwise) are folks whose
talents are sorely needed.
My head hurts from the last two days spent copy-editing someone else's
work. Not just a comma here, or a misspelled word there, but complete
rewrites of sentences just to make them READABLE. Makes me wonder if
this prose was written by a computer somewhere in Canada ...</rant>
"Finding the answer, it's a human obsession. But you might
as well talk to the stones and trees and the sea,
'Cause nobody knows,
And so few can see."
-from "Estonia" by Marillion
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