Re: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp. inappropriately

Subject: Re: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp. inappropriately
From: Laura Lemay <lemay-lists1 -at- lauralemay -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:42:46 -0800


Wow. Harsh reactions, dudes.

This manual was posted to techwrl a bunch of years back, and got a significantly better reaction from us then:

http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/archives/0209/ techwhirl-0209-00487.html

"funny and pleasantly distracting"
"It's wonderful! ..what a trip!
"This manual makes me want go out and buy the product"
"LOL"

The Helix, BTW, is an "extreme" sports watch for 18-24 yr old males. These are the kids that drink Red Bull, watch Super MX, play Halo, and call each other "dude." There's probably way too much text here for this audience, actually, but what is there is written just fine (needs a bit of copy editing, but hey, glass houses).

Really, guys. Humor is entirely appropriate in tech writing given the right audience. Loosen up. Have some Red Bull.

Laura


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Behalf Of Dan Goldstein
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 9:32 AM
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Subject: RE: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp.
inappropriately

Forgetting for a moment the excruciating tone and the too-cute layout,
there are hints that the writer is not a native English speaker. Do the
other languages use the same awful tone as the English?

And in all fairness to the tech writers at Timex, the manual might have
been disgorged by someone in another department. I can't imagine a
professional tech writer using it as a sample in a portfolio.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Warren
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:32 PM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp.
inappropriately

http://btb.timex.com/instructions/Helix.pdf


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Follow-Ups:

References:
fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp. inappropriately: From: Andrew Warren
RE: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp. inappropriately: From: Dan Goldstein
RE: fa-ce-tious adj. 1 Straining to be funny, esp. inappropriately: From: Poshedly, Ken

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