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Subject:Re: From the Department of Redundancy Department From:David Neeley <dbneeley -at- oddpost -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 25 Sep 2003 14:02:56 -0700 (PDT)
For which reasons, I would put it thusly:
"Widget Manager is a local application which must be installed on your system; it cannot be run as a remote application. Therefore, you may check to see if it is already installed by ... If it is, proceed with the next chapter. If not, continue with the next section: "Installing Widget Manager"
In that fashion, we would at least reduce the mumbling in the Peanut Gallery as to our sense or sanity.
David
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"WidgetManager must be installed on your system before you can
work with it."
Um... except for rewording the first sentence a bit, I actually
would have a first paragraph like that one you quote.
My reasons are:
There are two separate bits of information to convey, and
they must be conveyed to someone who may not have English
as a first language... or to someone who is translating.
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