RE: Are your documents interesting? and translatable?

Subject: RE: Are your documents interesting? and translatable?
From: Sankara R <ss_rajanala -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: laura_johnson -at- agilent -dot- com, john -dot- cook -at- gmail -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:52:38 -0800 (PST)


The ideal document is one that does not lose
anything 'meaningful' in translation.

[on an unrelated note, I was asking someone about
betting in golf games with friends - of which I
know nothing - and he said, nah, nothing
meaningful... just a bottle of beer. He meant,
methought, 'substantial' when he said
meaningful.]

Anyways, if you put poetry at one extreme, with
all its exploitation of figures of speech,
ambiguities, and lots of stuff lost in
translation: we, tech writers, are at the other
extreme.

> the prose in that case.
>
straight-faced, prosaic, uniquivocal... and
absolutely translatable. This is the challenge.
...
> limitations. I'm going to take this as a
> challenge. ;->

...as much as letting the fancy take you, a la
cummings, e.e.
===
anyone lived in a pretty how town
with up so floating many bells down
spring summer autumn winter
no one cared for anyone no more



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RE: Are your documents interesting?: From: laura_johnson

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