Re: Lingua Franca Today

[Andrew Plato <intrepid_es -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

"kelley" wrote...

> i guess i bring your attitude about doing what the clients want to my 
> work. i write for them. i do what we're contracted to do. it's a point 
> you keep refusing to acknowledge, that this is the writing that this 
> particular client wants and this project demands.

If you are plugged in with your client to such a level that you know they
enjoy flowery language, then...ra!

However, as many people have pointed out, most places don't like flowery
language. If a writer turned in a doc to me with "lingua franca" in it, I
would edit it out and tell them to cease and desist on the big words. A
lot of other places would as well. 

> i don't know andrew, but our clients are fortune 50s, so there is a 
> market  for it and the contracts get renewed year after year. there 
> isn't a big market, but there is one. as the owner says, when it stops 
> being fun, we ain't doing it anymore!

Eh, that's what they all say. If work was fun, we'd do it for free. 

Andrew Plato 

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