RE: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp. inappropriately

["Poshedly, Ken" <PoshedlyK -at- polysius -dot- com>]

Jeez. 

Wouldn't it be something if that Timex writer is - but now _was_ -
simply a reader on this list? 

We'd never find out the real story about how and why he or she did what
they did. Directive from above? Just didn't know better? An honest
effort gone awry?)

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Dan Goldstein
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 9:32 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp.
inappropriately

Forgetting for a moment the excruciating tone and the too-cute layout,
there are hints that the writer is not a native English speaker. Do the
other languages use the same awful tone as the English?

And in all fairness to the tech writers at Timex, the manual might have
been disgorged by someone in another department. I can't imagine a
professional tech writer using it as a sample in a portfolio.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Warren
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:32 PM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp. 
> inappropriately
> 
> http://btb.timex.com/instructions/Helix.pdf
> 

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