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Subject:Re: Fw: Job Titles From:doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 2 Jun 2006 22:09:31 -0700
On Friday 02 June 2006 10:30, Joe Malin wrote:
> My own preferred title (being a fan of steampunk) would be
> "Scrivener-Wright"
Nice name for a company.
'Scrivener' seems like a fine title but for the inevitable identification with
'Bartleby the Scrivener,' who couldn't find his motivation and ended up
always answering with "I prefer not to" when the boss told him to do
something.
I know, we always discuss Melville on techwr-l, but any newbies might enjoy
catching up on the thread here:
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