Re: Variety in Tech Writing (was: Display, Displays, or Appears)

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Keith Hood wrote:
>> Actually, it does hurt. In the third sentence, for
>> instance, the change to future tense and reversal 
 >> of order to "numbers and letters" will require me to
 >> slow down while my mind confirms that this
>> requirement really is the same as the one I learned earlier. 

> The double-take time that you call "cognitive load" is...what, 
 > maybe as long as 1.5 seconds?

"You can't kill time without injuring eternity." --unknown

HTH,

Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com




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