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Re: What do you guys think of STCs new definition for technical writer?
Subject:Re: What do you guys think of STCs new definition for technical writer? From:"Milan Davidovic" <milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 30 May 2008 13:05:09 -0400
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> That was where I was going with my comment. It's an invented term. Don't use it.
If no one ever used an invented term, we'd have no language. And as
long as we keep coming up with new things to describe, we're going to
have to keep inventing terms or else we won't be able to talk about
them.
In this particular instance, though, are we talking about something
that already has a name?
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