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Re: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files
Subject:Re: Technical writing for finance: one for the Friday files From:Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> To:Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> Date:Sat, 26 May 2007 15:33:07 -0700
Geoff Hart wrote:
> Hang on a second, guys. I never said anything of the sort. What I did
> say is that there are a great many more professions than computer
> documentation in which it's important to understand jargon and deal
> with complexity, which is a very different thing.
Oh, the shame! See below.
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<snippage>
"technical" has taken on
the meaning of writing in any discipline that has its own
standardized jargon.
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