Quaint technical writing

Subject: Quaint technical writing
From: doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 17:00:49 -0800

This tool manual PDF contains, in the last paragraph, what I think is a very
good example of the endangered quality of quaintness in tech writing. See
for yourself:

http://www.harborfreight.com/manuals/0-999/807.pdf

I have to wonder if the environment that produced this is really in Pittsburg.
What do you think?


Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com
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