TechWhirl (TECHWR-L) is a resource for technical writing and technical communications professionals of all experience levels and in all industries to share their experiences and acquire information.
For two decades, technical communicators have turned to TechWhirl to ask and answer questions about the always-changing world of technical communications, such as tools, skills, career paths, methodologies, and emerging industries. The TechWhirl Archives and magazine, created for, by and about technical writers, offer a wealth of knowledge to everyone with an interest in any aspect of technical communications.
I worked on IFUs for five years before finally learning two years later
that that's how user guides are referred to by the FDA. Of course, V&Vs
were part of the QA process.
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 1:23 PM Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:34:30 -0400, Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
> > May I say, in the gentlest of tones, that I HATE, HATE, HATE this kind
> > of thing. :-)
> >
> > I try to weed it out whenever possible. We are the last line of
> defense.
> > LOL.
>
> Some of it is "in-our-office" abbreviations, spoken but not usually
> written. I was asked by a government clerk, "Wassa soash?"
>
> It took several back-and-forth exchanges before I discovered that she was
> asking me, "What is your Social Security Number?"
>
> Perhaps we are at fault for allowing abbreviated phrases such as TTL
> instead of transistor-transistor logic, or agile instead of Agile
> Software
> Development.
>
> No, we are not at fault. Many of us have tales of having crushed
> confusing
> or unfathomable terminology before it became a standard. My favorite was
> when I pointed out to a naive software person that his choice of "close"
> meaning "not exactly, but almost" was already in use in the same product,
> with the meaning "close the file."
>
> Also, the "Wassa soash?" person routinely pronounced "what" as "watt."
> The
> hw phoneme will be gone in another generation.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Visit TechWhirl for the latest on content technology, content strategy and
> content development | https://techwhirl.com
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com -dot-
>
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to
> techwr-l-leave -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>
>
> Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- Visit
>http://www.techwhirl.com/email-discussion-groups/ for more resources and
> info.
>
> Looking for articles on Technical Communications? Head over to our online
> magazine at http://techwhirl.com
>
> Looking for the archived Techwr-l email discussions? Search our public
> email archives @ http://techwr-l.com/archives
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Visit TechWhirl for the latest on content technology, content strategy and content development | https://techwhirl.com
