RE: Tina the Techwriter Reopens the Great Debate

Subject: RE: Tina the Techwriter Reopens the Great Debate
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:56:01 -0700


Quoting Lyn Worthen <Lyn -dot- Worthen -at- caselle -dot- com>:

> I think using other languages or accents -can- be done both well and
> convincingly, without branding the writer as a hack.

This isn't what I said. I said that having people think in dialect or throwing
in a few foreign phrases were the tactics of a hack.

Attempting to reproduce a dialect in speech is something very different.

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RE: Tina the Techwriter Reopens the Great Debate: From: Lyn Worthen

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