RE: what I recently heard

[Jim Shaeffer <jims -at- spsi -dot- com>]

"Everyone knows that consistency is important. But at STC's 
46th Annual Conference last May in Cincinnati, a speaker 
reportedly proclaimed, 'It is better to be consistently 
wrong than to not be consistent.'

I was astonished. But many technical writers agreed, 
saying that policing consistency is the most important 
thing they do."

>From Don Bush's column The Friendly Editor in *Intercom* 
for September/October 1999. 

Jim Shaeffer (jims -at- spsi -dot- com)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Hower [mailto:hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com]

> i recently heard someone say the following:
> 
> "I'd almost rather have it [the content of docs] be 
> consistent and be wrong, than to have documents that aren't 
> consistent."
> 
> i didn't really know how to respond to this. I was kind of 
> dumbfounded actually. What's a good way to respond to such a 
> statement?
 


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