RE: Common Errors in English

Subject: RE: Common Errors in English
From: "Lippincott, Rick" <Rick -dot- Lippincott -at- flir -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 12:31:40 -0500

Michael West wrote:

>... but if I found "for all intensive purposes" in a technical
>document, I'd stop reading it.

Of course, if you were -editing- the document, you'd at least first
change it to "for all intents and purposes" (and then probably suggest a
better phrase), right?

--Rick Lippincott
FLIR Systems
Billerica, MA




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