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RE: Best technical writing of the season

Subject: RE: Best technical writing of the season
From: Kat Nagel <mlists -at- masterworkconsulting -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 00:03:41 -0500

At 01:48 PM -0800 2004-01-05, Goober Writer wrote:

> "Mixing takes approximately three minutes for
non-pulpy juice or5 minutes for pulpy juice. "

That makes no sense whatsoever. I like it!


Er...actually...it makes perfect sense to this former industrial R&D formulation chemist.

Non-pulpy juice
= simple aqueous solution with a density close to that of pure water
= mixes thoroughly in a short period of time.

Pulpy juice
= complex particulate mixture
= turbid and probably denser than pure water
= takes longer to mix than non-pulpy juice.

Looks like they were writing those instructions for an audience of chemists, not an audience of technical writers <grin>.

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