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True, but write in English. Your users may not be geeks.
Elizabeth Ross wrote:
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> ability to speak with engineers and understand what they are saying and
> trying to do. IMHO, that is probably the single most cogent working skill a
> technical writer can have. In other words, ya gotta speak geek.
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