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Subject:Re: E-Primer From:Jim Walsh <jimw -at- TENNESSEE -dot- SC -dot- TI -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 9 May 1994 14:19:18 CDT
I'm sorry, but the obvious stupid question is "What does a Hollywood
personal trainer read like??" Or, what is one??
-- Jim Walsh jimw -at- tennessee -dot- sc -dot- ti -dot- com (the writer, not the state)
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* Subject: Re: E-Primer
* Comments: To: Jim Venis <ujv01 -at- EAGLE -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM>
* To: Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L <TECHWR-L -at- OSUVM1 -dot- BITNET>
* One manager wanted me to try the various style checkers. So I bought
* several and ran our texts through them. They all kept saying "Error!
* Error! Avoid Passive voice!" The manager thought that this was indeed an
* error, and wanted the entire manual only in the active voice.
* The damned manual now reads like something by a Hollywood personal trainer!
* yrs,
* andreas
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* Andreas Ramos, M.A. Heidelberg Sacramento, California
