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Subject:RE: Weird words From:Maggie_Secara -at- capgroup -dot- com To:dgreen -at- associatedbrands -dot- com Date:Thu, 5 Oct 2006 12:59:28 -0700
Document is also a perfectly good verb, which is how your cap uses it.
It's amusing but hardly cryptic.
Maggie
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dori green wrote on 10/05/2006 03:51:27 PM:
> Sometimes I even wear my baseball cap sporting the slogan "Document Until
> You Drop".
>
> Only other technical writers "get it".
>
> Just in case non-TWs are lurking here, I will explain that it is meant to
> point out that "document" is a perfectly good noun and please do not
force
> it into Verb's sweater.
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