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RE: Something a little more useful than: RE: Pet Peeves
Subject:RE: Something a little more useful than: RE: Pet Peeves From:"Poshedly, Ken" <PoshedlyK -at- polysius -dot- com> To:"Chris Borokowski" <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:22:41 -0400
Better yet, can we mandate that all advertising copy be truthful?
(Double-Triple HA!!!! )
-- Ken in Atlanta
(Whose career also includes a short stint as an advertising copywriter.
My ethics got in the way, that's why I didn't last.)
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Subject: RE: Something a little more useful than: RE: Pet Peeves
Can we mandate that all advertising copy conform to Simplified English?
Ha!
--- Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
wrote:
> Here's a place where compromise might actually be useful.
>
> Use Simplified English (or similar) in instructional steps, and write
> more comfortably, or with greater range, in the
> descriptive/expository/concept verbiage that might accompany the
> instructions.
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