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Subject:RE: SUMMARY: If You Were Gonna Teach... From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 12 Mar 2002 11:00:37 -0800 (PST)
> I think I have to second that; brevity is the soul of things other
> than wit. I've only been here a week and I'm reading documents that
> say things like, "On clicking of the Delete Button the following
> information is deleted...."
This was probably an off-the-cuff example, but to me, if I was
reading this, would question not that something is deleted, but what
is "...the following..."
Granted there would be a better way to phrase it, but we shouldn't
miss an important part of a sentence becuase we don't like the way it
is phrased.
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