Re: In case you've tuned out of the "tech writer definition" thread ...

Subject: Re: In case you've tuned out of the "tech writer definition" thread ...
From: Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>
To: Michael West <WestM -at- conwag -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:55:57 -0700


Those of us who have tuned out the tech writer definition thread have
tuned it out for a reason. Changing the subject line to evade email
filters is rude. Knock it off.


Michael West wrote:
> ...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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References:
In case you've tuned out of the "tech writer definition" thread ...: From: Michael West
RE: In case you've tuned out of the "tech writer definition" thread ...: From: Leonard C. Porrello

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