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Subject:Re: Interacting with a touchscreen From:"Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com> To:"Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> Date:Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:08:35 -0500
> My advice is to keep these subjective evaluations in perspective. Many
> of us have personal hang-ups about certain words in technical writing.
A
> favorite example, reported in a techwr-l discussion a year or two ago,
> was an aversion to using the word "training" because, the writer said,
> it brought to mind trained circus animals. The writer felt it was
> degrading to suggest to the audience that they were circus seals.
Aren't we all merely seals in the great and terrible circus of life,
anyway?
I'm just sayin'.
-- Craig
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