Re: Word Question

["David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com>]

Ken Bowes wrote:
> 
> Obviously, Mr. Brown, this was a ludicrous question.  I'm sorry
> for wasting your time.

I didn't say anything about the question being a waste of time *or* about the person who asked.  I commented only on the expectation, and I'm sorry my response offended you.

If you had asked about software that would help create links *from* the text *to* an existing glossary, you'd have gotten a different answer, because that's a reasonable thing to ask of software.

But I don't read minds--I simply responded to the question asked.

> 
> I had never heard the term concordance before...so, after receiving a reply
> with that term, I searched for it on the web...didn't find anything that I
> could use.

It'll be in any good dictionary.

> 
> Like quite a few others have stated recently, the more elite, successful
> folks on the list seem to be getting very touchy lately about questions that
> are beneath them.  It is very disheartening to those who are new to the
> profession and do not know what the latest technological advances are, to be
> getting negative feedback in the way it has been given.  Maybe those folks
> should ask Eric to limit the membership to the ones who can only ask
> questions they approve of.

"Elite"?  Horsefeathers.  I'm just another tech writer who depends on this list as a place to learn, and occasionally to inform or simply offer comment.

"Latest technological advances"?  Concordances, indexes, and glossaries--not to mention dictionaries--must be hundreds of years old.

--David

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