RE: Chattiness in manuals

["Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>]

I'd regard that as not so much chattiness but an outright lie, actually
(especially in the case of most plug and pray applications!).  I try to
avoid outright lies in documentation, but sometimes my bosses have
insisted...

S.

>Verging on chattiness but umpteen times worse:
>
>"Installation of XXX application <and/or hardware> is fast and easy."
>
>Invariably, it is neither.
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