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NON-DELIVERY of: NON-DELIVERY of: Re: What to call us
Subject:NON-DELIVERY of: NON-DELIVERY of: Re: What to call us From:Lotus -dot- M -dot- a -dot- i -dot- l -dot- Exchange -at- TESSPO-VA -dot- SMTRW -dot- LANGATE -dot- SPRINT -dot- COM Date:Fri, 23 Jun 1995 17:35:00 -0400
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>While I don't have any objection to my peers/colleagues adopting other
>titles for the same work I do, I don't know who it *really* impresses. I
>know that when I meet a Sanitation Engineer, I'm dealing with a garbage
man >with a vocabulary (or a thesaurus).
<snippity snip>
>We say what we *are* (technical writers, technical communicators, document
>engineers, information engineers, etc.), when asked what we do, when we
>should be telling people what we *do*.
Thanks for your insightful and sensible post. Of course we should be doing
as you suggest because, existentialist echoes aside, we are what we do.
steve wax stevewx -at- eskimo -dot- com
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