RE: Grammar Question

Subject: RE: Grammar Question
From: "Lauren" <lt34 -at- csus -dot- edu>
To: "'Eddie Hollon'" <eddiehollon -at- yahoo -dot- com>, "'Techwr-L List'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 23:31:36 -0700

Eddie,

There was no "heat" in my response, let alone "amazing heat." You were
either confusing translation with readability or you were trying to discuss
an unrelated subject and I have no intention of trying to figure out why you
would do that. But you did direct attacks against me for not discussing
audience-centered translation issues, so I tried to politely explain to you
why translation was not a part of a discussion about readability.

You seem to think that a non-native English speaking audience of a document
is a factor in the grammar of an individual sentence. This is odd and
wrong. The audience is a factor of the entire document, but sentences can
be evaluated individually for grammar because grammar is not an audience
issue. You are still confused and I have no interest in continuing any
discussion with you.

Lauren


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Hollon [mailto:eddiehollon -at- yahoo -dot- com]
> Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 11:03 PM
> To: Lauren; 'Techwr-L List'
> Subject: RE: Grammar Question
>
> Wow...that is an amazingly overheated response.
> "Injecting translation," as you call it, was merely an
> example for the real issue, which was that the
> audience should be considered as the context for
> whether or not the sentence was appropriate.
>
> The rest of this diatribe is unproductive, so I leave
> you to continue the downward spiral on your own, if
> you wish.
>
>

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