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Subject:RE: them responses to "them engineers" From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> To:techwr-l digest recipients <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 May 2000 09:29:47 -0700
Uma wrote:
>How does one sell the idea that the correct use of articles makes text look
>better to a boss who seems to manage fine without them.
Ask the boss to read something he or she has written out loud.
Unless the boss doesn't speak English very well, he or she will
probably falter where the articles should be. Then jump in and
explain that someone reading the text will have the same sort of
mental stutter.
This tactic is a little unfair, since few people know how to read
out loud. However, it gets this (or any other) grammatical point
across fairly well.
--
Bruce Byfield, Outlaw Communications
"The Open Road" column, Maximum Linux
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"I should have known it from the start,
It's not the truth that really matters,
The real world tramples on such things,
Leaves your mental state in tatters."
-James Keelaghan, "Small Rebellions"
