Re: Getting up to speed on UML (Was: Re: Documentation Correctness...)

[<neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>]

What? Tony's a punching bag? He puts his tongue firmly in his
cheek, makes a silly statement with extra negatatives that would
make a Russian proud, and gets flak for it!

Awwright, everybody, back to work! No humor aloud. Its' not
Friday yet, Don't need no bad grammers an wash you're speling, two.

--Peter Neilson

> tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com wrote:]
> > As a Tech Writer I hardly don't write nothing. I primarily create data 
> > flow diagrams.
> >
> > Really John, I once got grilled on this listserv about my grammar 
> > bt the pres (or some big wig like that) of STC. Having survived that, 
> > I am immune to grammar criticisms.
>  
> What a remarkable attitude for someone who claims to be a professional
> communicator.
>  
> I guess you must consider the rules of logic to be as irrelevant to you 
> as the rules of grammar that you dismiss, because the sentence John 
> commented on simply doesn't mean what you intended if you parse its
> logic. You wrote: 
> > there are no books ... that are not going to "tell it like it is".
> which is logically equivalent to:
>    All books are going to tell it like it is.
> Surely this can't be what you intended to say. 
>  
> If you insist that you can't be bothered to state what you actually
> mean, why should you be surprised that so many list members don't 
> take anything that you say seriously?
>  
> -Fred Ridder


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