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Re: DOCTORS, ENGINEERS, AND ALL THOSE WITH LARGER BRAINS THAN I
Subject:Re: DOCTORS, ENGINEERS, AND ALL THOSE WITH LARGER BRAINS THAN I From:Laura Johnson <lauraj -at- CND -dot- HP -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 22 Aug 1994 16:12:21 GMT
HALL Kirby (hall -at- wthm32 -dot- montrouge -dot- wireline -dot- slb -dot- com) wrote:
: But I have noticed a certain smugness at hospital cocktail
: parties and around the lunch table here in the computer world
: (SCHLUMBERGER).
Not like tech writers at all, right? I thought there was a bit of
smugness in the mention of engineers inventing their own copyediting
marks, not to mention the discussion of engineers who give all the
*wrong* kinds of feedback during review cycles. (But of course,
everyone learns about copyediting marks in high school! Think back --
it was the day after we learned Celsius/Fahrenheit conversion ;->)