RE: Bullfighter diagnosis on post (was Re: Writing Corrective Actionsfor customers?)

Subject: RE: Bullfighter diagnosis on post (was Re: Writing Corrective Actionsfor customers?)
From: "Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:57:57 -0700

Okay. Are we still in the banter-zone or is this a real rip?

Just wondering...

Lauren

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> From: techwr-l-bounces+lauren=writeco -dot- net -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lauren=writeco -dot- net -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> ] On Behalf Of Michael West
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:31 PM
> To: Tim Mantyla
> Cc: doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com; richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com;
> techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: Bullfighter diagnosis on post (was Re: Writing
> Corrective Actionsfor customers?)
>
> Tim Mantyla wrote on 23/04/2008 06:01:09 AM:
>
> > FWIW, the Bullfighter gives Ned a composite score of 8.8 out of 10
> > for this composition, and 63 out of 100 on the Flesch reading index,
> > as convoluted as it sounds.
>
> I don't need the help of software to know blather when I read it.
>
> I can handle convolution. What I can't handle is the absence of an
> objective correlative for the metaphor--if that's what it is.
>
> "Where one gets off dumping on people" is not a meaningful
> expression in
> any species of English that concerns me -- especially not in
> a technical
> communications forum. Without a citation relating the expression to
> something in the real word (as we laughingly refer to it), it is
> indecipherable.
>
> --
> Mike West
> Melbourne, Australia

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