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Subject:RE: LONG - A colloquial writing style? From:"Walden Miller" <wmiller -at- vidiom -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 10 May 2005 11:34:10 -0600
I remember one of my writers (along time ago in a company far far away) was
writing about master/slave host/client networking...
She decided in the example to make the master server name Mick and the slave
name Keith. Then she proceeded to discuss Mick and Keith's relationship.
It was hysterical and very informative.
Funny is good as long as it is educational.
Similarly, early FrameMaker documents 1.0-3.0 used Buckeroo Banzai examples
throughout there docs. In jokes for geeks.
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