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>Word choices are not only our stock in trade but our responsibility as
>writers (technical or otherwise). If the terminology of an industry needs
>to be changed, why shouldn't we try? Many computer terms, coined by folks
>whose personal literature perhaps consisted of comic books and the Sunday
>funnies, are hardly user-friendly. I suppose that if they had had an
> ...
>I've been battling developers for weeks now about the choice of words to
>describe related documents in one of our products. They want to call them
> ...
>Unh-unh. It's become an "over my dead body" issue. And I will win.
Uh oh. Beth, you may be contributing to the creation of a group of
developers who will never cooperate with tech writers again
David Dvorkin
Qualix Group, Inc.
Boulder Development Ctr. mailto:dvorkin -at- bolix -dot- com
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