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Subject:RE: Would you like a fries with that style guide? From:Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Apr 2001 13:00:45 -0700 (PDT)
As quip as it may be, there is more truth to this than a lot of writers want to
accept. Unfortunately, writing is most just raw unbridled grunt work of
figuring out how to say meaningful things like:
"All your base are belong to us." or "Somebody set us up the bomb."
:-)
BTW: If you get the joke encoded in that, you are officially a nerd and can
ascend to the next pay scale without passing HR.
Andrew Plato
--- "DeGuzman, Kathi" <Kathi -dot- Deguzman -at- Nextel -dot- com> wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> I beg to differ. I do think that there is an "internationally recognized
> methodology"
> to writing. I think Mary Heaton Vorse said it best when she said:
>
> "... writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the
> chair."
>
> <g;)>
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