Bullfighter diagnosis on post (was Re: Writing Corrective Actions for customers?)

[Michael West]

Tim Mantyla wrote on 23/04/2008 06:01:09 AM:
 
> FWIW, the Bullfighter gives Ned a composite score of 8.8 out of 10 
> for this composition, and 63 out of 100 on the Flesch reading index,
> as convoluted as it sounds. 

I don't need the help of software to know blather when I read it. 

I can handle convolution. What I can't handle is the absence of an 
objective correlative for the metaphor--if that's what it is. 

"Where one gets off dumping on people" is not a meaningful expression in 
any species of English that concerns me -- especially not in a technical 
communications forum. Without a citation relating the expression to 
something in the real word (as we laughingly refer to it), it is 
indecipherable.

-- 
Mike West
Melbourne, Australia