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Re: Need Your Opinions re Simplified English (Can I quote you?)
Subject:Re: Need Your Opinions re Simplified English (Can I quote you?) From:kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 31 May 2002 09:34:28 -0600
Gary wrote:
>By downgrading your writing to 'cater' to the uneducated you
>corrupt and downgrade the language itself over time. By buying
>into the concept that, since the un and under educated must be
>'catered to' you become part of the problem and a contributor
>to further degrading of the language.
Thanks for reminding me that it's the *language* that's important, not the
user.
I keep forgetting that. Sheesh - and I called myself a tech writer!
-Keith Cronin
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