RE: watch your language! (or don't)

["diotima" <diotima -at- myway -dot- com>]

HA! beer good! i love it! it's just that sort of thing that gives me such great pleasure! thanks for that.

-d





 --- On Sat 04/30, Laurel Hickey < lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca > wrote:

From: Laurel Hickey [mailto: lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca]

To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:05:27 -0700

Subject: RE: watch your language! (or don't)



<br>Hi diotima<br><br>I agree. Language - and writing - for most people is heavily context-driven.<br>I'm going to use different words and sentence structures depending on who I<br>am with and where we are, and for writing, who the audience is and the<br>intended effect. If I'm writing a technical report on the chemical makeup of<br>beer, my tone and word choice will be different than if I was writing an<br>article about a beer tasting for a high-brow magazine. And different again<br>than in an email to a friend when setting up a pub crawl. <br><br>And in the words of the immortal Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the episode<br>where she drinks a witched brew and reverts to a primitive state, sometimes<br>it's enough to say: BEER GOOD! <br><br>Language is fun. ;-))

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