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Subject:Re: injecting a little whimsy into grey text From:"Mitchell Maltenfort" <mmalten -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Sean Diggins" <diggo -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> Date:Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:07:25 -0400
I was once writing a journal article on spinal motor control.
Describing why one type of circuit was in the frog but not in the cat,
I wrote "cats do not swim voluntarily." I was told to take it out.
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Sean Diggins <diggo -at- westnet -dot- com -dot- au> wrote:
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>> Milan Davidovic wrote:
>> > Have you ever felt like the writer described in this post?
>> >
>> > http://www.mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2041
>> >
>>
>> Humor in technical writing is a tricky subject.
>>sources and info.
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> I recently trialled various online Project Management solutions. One of the
> demos (@task, IIRC) used the fictional company depicted in The Office,
> complete with all staff. There was no reference anywhere to the series -
> you'd only get the joke if you knew the series well. Good fun.
>
> Sean
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