Re: Any alternatives for WebWorks FinalDraft?

[David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Sorry, but I couldn't resist pointing out the humorous satire of tech
writing on the government's Plain English site at
http://plainlanguage.gov/examples/humor/technologywriters.cfm

Perhaps a little more true than they realized?

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Lesson Three: Technical Terms
Functionality  

There are two ways to use this versatile word. The first is to use it
in place of a word like "function" or "feature". Those words are
overused, so functionality will make your document seem fresh by
comparison:

    Do you have the power windows functionality on your car? 

The second way is to use it as an indicator of general operation. For
example, instead of writing:

    The intern broke the copier. 

Try writing:

The functionality of the copy machine has been compromised by our
Associate Coffee/Errand Assistant I.

On 7/12/05, Mike wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Walter wrote:
> 
> >
> > Art,
> >
> > Have you used that functionality much? I played with it...
> >
> > Perhaps the functionality has improved in version 7, or maybe I was
> > missing something in earlier versions.
> 
> Hmm. I haven't used the server functionality, but I've used Acrobat and
> Acrobat Reader in peer reviews. ... I'm not sure why you'd need the server
> functionality, myself. :)

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