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Subject:RE: Windows Vista tone (was RE: Pet Peeves) From:Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:Techwr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:26:30 -0500
Sarah Bouchier replied:
> >* Strike the right balance: be warm toward the user without being too
> >intimate or too business-like. Imagine that you are helping a friend
> use
> >the product for the first time. This person is not your best
> friend or
> >significant other, but instead, a neighbor or family friend. Users
> >should feel comfortable and at home when using Windows, but the
> language
> >should not feel presumptuous or too familiar.
>
> Woo! The way I write has become fashionable!
:->
Any multilingual people on the list who can tell us if MS exhorts
similarly for Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, German, Indian... writers?
Or is the approach/tone a lot different in those cases?
I'm making the distinction between what such cultures expect/prefer
in their instructional documentation versus what MS might be suggesting
the local writers should do... if there is any distinction. Is there?
Kevin
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