Fw: Job Titles

[doc at edwordsmith.com]

On Friday 02 June 2006 10:30, Joe Malin wrote:

> My own preferred title (being a fan of steampunk) would be
> "Scrivener-Wright"

Nice name for a company.

'Scrivener' seems like a fine title but for the inevitable identification with 
'Bartleby the Scrivener,' who couldn't find his motivation and ended up 
always answering with "I prefer not to" when the boss told him to do 
something.   

I know, we always discuss Melville on techwr-l, but any newbies might enjoy 
catching up on the thread here:

http://tinyurl.com/nh96n

Regards.

Ned Bedinger
doc at edwordsmith.com