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Subject:RE: Of Mice and Morons From:"Michael West" <mwest -at- oz -dot- quest -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:47:09 +1000
Andrew Plato wrote:
> Your job as a writer is to transform readers from a drooling morons to
> semi-educated people. The utmost respect you can give your reader
> is to write them text that even a moron could understand.
No. My job as a writer is to help my employer's customers do what they need
to do, quickly and easily, using the products for which they have spent good
money.
Reading this list, I sometimes think I have stumbled into a Monty Python
sketch instead of a professional forum. Contempt for one's audience is not
mitigated by extending it into a general contempt for everyone including
one's self and one's profession.
