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

[Lauren]

Okay.  Are we still in the banter-zone or is this a real rip?

Just wondering...

Lauren

> -----Original Message-----
> From: techwr-l-bounces+lauren=writeco.net at lists.techwr-l.com 
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lauren=writeco.net at lists.techwr-l.com
> ] On Behalf Of Michael West
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:31 PM
> To: Tim Mantyla
> Cc: doc at edwordsmith.com; richard.combs at Polycom.com; 
> techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: Re: Bullfighter diagnosis on post (was Re: Writing 
> Corrective Actionsfor customers?)
> 
> 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