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RE: Language of appeasement (was: It did happen on a Friday...
Subject:RE: Language of appeasement (was: It did happen on a Friday... From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:38:44 -0500
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> The other night I landed on the last five minutes of the
> animated TV series "King of the Hill", in which the main
> protagonist dealing with just this sort of thing...
>
> ... I hope the point is made.
>
> /kevin
Hi Kevin,
That depends. If the point is that TV cartoons don't reflect the typical
technical writing environment, then yes, you've made it very well.
