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In case you've tuned out of the "tech writer definition" thread ...
Subject:In case you've tuned out of the "tech writer definition" thread ... From:Michael West <WestM -at- conwag -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 7 May 2008 16:15:51 +1000
...Lauren continues to provide examples of false syllogisms good enough to
press into an album for posterity:
> If this were true, then it should follow that a technical writer
> could be a legal writer. We know this is not true because lawyers
> are legal writers.
A cat cannot have four legs because dogs have four legs, and we know that
a cat is not a dog.
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Mike West
Melbourne, Australia
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