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Totally cool!: This is a review of a car owner's manual, and some letters in response
Subject:Totally cool!: This is a review of a car owner's manual, and some letters in response From:Berk/Devlin <armadill -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 03 May 2001 13:50:15 -0700
I find this kind of deep concern about the wordings in a car owner's manual
heart-warming: http://www.vocabula.com/VRMar01Carkeet.htm (Boy, I really
do need a life, don't I?)
And then, there were the letters in response:
http://www.vocabula.com/VRApr01Letters.htm
Such as:
"... Every once in a while the owner's manual writer gets the chance to
write ? to describe that which hasn't already been described, or even to
explain that which seems to want more than mere description. I recall my
big chance. One of my vehicles got a new headlight switch, operated by a
knob unlike the knobs of models gone by. Instead of tiny, parallel grooves
like the edge of a quarter, it had bold, deep cuts, radial ones as well as
crosswise ones. It was "knurled." I employed the word. As soon as she read
about the knurled knob, my supervisor hooted on me and told the rest of the
workgroup, and I never heard the end of it." --- Mike Holaday
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