Re: We can't make stuff up?

[Donald Le Vie <dlevie -at- VLINE -dot- NET>]

Alt-Tab....wasn't that one of those fictitious planets in Episode I:Phantom
Menace?

Donn Le Vie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merrick, Tim [SMTP:tim -dot- merrick -at- LSIL -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 4:19 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: We can't make stuff up?
>
> David, Sean, and all,
>
> A few points:
>
> 1) How can I make something up and be consistent with you and everyone
> else
> making something up? As a writer, I'd be the last person to stifle
> creativity. But as a technical writer I deal in facts.
>
> 2) If I was documenting an unnamed element of my company's software I
> would
> have the right to stake my claim to creating a name for that element. But
> we're talking here about an element of Microsoft Windows. It's up to the
> good folks in Redmond to name elements of their products, not to li'l ole
> me.
>
> 3) We're also talking about applying a proper noun to this "popup," or
> whatever it is. That's where I take exception to winging it. Sure, you
> have
> to find some descriptor to use, but not a proper noun. I can quote either
> David or Sean as "that guy on TECHWR-L" or by giving a proper attribution.
> But if I quote either of them by referring to the name Tom, Dick, or
> Harry,
> how is that meaningful to anyone--particularly to someone who prefers to
> use
> Moe, Larry, or Curly?
>
> So, like Sean, I'm sticking to my guns.
>
> Just call us The Three Stooges of Alt-Tab! ;-)
>
> Tim Merrick
> Technical Publications
> LSI Logic Storage Systems
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