RE: Plato's Rhetoric

Subject: RE: Plato's Rhetoric
From: "Skilton Katherine (ism1kns)" <ism1kns -at- UPS -dot- COM>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:24:00 -0500

I'm sorry, but how in the world does this pertain to technical
communication? This thread is mind-numbing.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Grossman [mailto:Doug -dot- Grossman -at- sas -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 3:02 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Plato's Rhetoric


<Andrew Plato wrote: "Demonstrate your technical communications
prowess....... I will concede my weaknesses quickly and look for common
ground.>

I wouldn't have done this under other circumstances, but you actually asked
us to.

<Andrew Plato wrote: "It is a personal judgment of a individual based on
erroneous information.">

Don't you mean: ".......AN individual......." ?

<Andrew Plato wrote: "Does that mean all you STC members are a losers and
must die.">

Don't you mean: ".....are [delete "a"] losers and must die[?]" ?

<Andrew Plato wrote: "I have thick and can stand people calling me names.">

Don't you mean: "I have thick skin......." ?

<Andrew Plato wrote: ".......William Renquist.......">

Don't you mean: ".......William Rehnquist......." ?

There are countless other errors, as well.

I don't hate you. I don't know you. I don't know anything about you as a
person. Sometimes, albeit rarely, I actually agree with you (e.g.,
regarding Scalia, et al.). But it takes away from what you are saying if
you don't write it correctly, at least for me.

Thank you for listening (read: reading), apologies to those who don't care
one way or another, and back to our regularly scheduled programming.......

---Doug Grossman


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