Re: and then

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

Dick Margulis wrote:
> Bonnie Granat wrote:
>
> [big snip]
>
>>
>> Professional writers and editors need to either use professional
>> standards or give up the right to call themselves "professionals."
>>
>>
>
> I'm not sure where you're going with that, Bonnie.

To TECHWR-L Hell in a handbasket?


Choosing informal
> diction when it is appropriate to the audience and situation is
> something professional writers and editors do all the time. If you are
> suggesting that only formal diction is worthy of being called
> professional, we'll have to agree to disagree.
>

People who read instructions and notice incorrect grammar often conclude
that the instructions cannot be trusted -- because the writer hasn't
even mastered how to write a proper English sentence. That's the way it
is. When one uses English in a nonstandard way, that is the risk one
takes.


Bonnie Granat
www.GranatEdit.com
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Mobile: 617-319-7461
Office: 617-354-7084



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