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Re: Can style trump grammar rules?

Subject: Re: Can style trump grammar rules?
From: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: Kyle Simmons <kylesimmons0164 -at- gmail -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:40:58 -0700

My wife used to be a legal secretary. She would have been grinding her teeth and grabbing one hand with the other a la Dr Strangelove to hold herself back from choking the life out of your GF.

It's not just technical writer thinking.

Gene Kim-Eng


On 7/30/2014 9:07 AM, Kyle Simmons wrote:

She was doing all the addressing, and I noticed that she was writing in all
lowercase. Lowercase names. Lowercase street addresses. Lowercase state
abbreviations. I was horrified.


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