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Re[2]: USAGE: (No) Capitals in "I", "you" and one's e-mail s
Subject:Re[2]: USAGE: (No) Capitals in "I", "you" and one's e-mail s From:"Walker, Arlen P" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:44:09 -0500
after all, that is what I am: a
professional writer! Aren't we all?
One can easily draw a distinction between being a "professional writer,"
and "writing professionally." When I write e-mail, unless someone's paying
me for it, as in writing to explain further something that wasn't done
well in the docs, I am *not* writing professionally. Because of who I am,
however, I would expect the quick email notes I dash off to still be more
literate and more "professional" than ones dashed off by non-writers.
BTW, it was deliciously ironic that you ended your "professional writer"
pronouncement by including the entirety of the the previous message at the
end, right down to sending us all a second copy of the paragraph the
listserv tacks on to the end of a message. I appreciated the chuckle it
gave me.
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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