RE: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Lots of us have worked in Marcom -- some happily, some less so. The
practice of turning plain, non-technical English (e.g., "Are we going to
spend ourselves silly?") into gobbledy-gook is not technical writing.

Happy Friday,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Hart
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 10:44 AM
> To: TECHWR-L; Dan Goldstein
> Subject: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files
> 
> ... In any event, I'm afraid I must dispute your point. 
> "Technical" has its roots in the Greek word "techne", which 
> means an "art"; more recently (i.e., since the 20th century?), 
> "technical" has taken on the meaning of writing in any 
> discipline that has its own standardized jargon. So yes, 
> financial marketing prose is technical communication... 
> 

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