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Subject:RE: using a slogan on a resume From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:18:17 -0500
I know that this is going to really bug a bunch of you out there, but I take
the view that 99% of my readers are technically oriented or conversational
readers...those who want what they read to sound like how they speak.
Go to almost anyone and ask them what a slit infinitive is and the vast
majority couldn't tell you and wouldn't care...and in many cases, that
includes me.
I take the position that for the content to read "smoothly", sometimes,
grammar rules come secondarily. When I read the quote, I was distracted from
the message by the wording. My goal is to convey the message.
>>John, I think that would depend on your position vis a vis prepositions
and the
>>splitting thereof. The first example does not split the infinitive, but
the second does.
But which one makes you pause while reading?
John Posada
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