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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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