Re: ADMIN: Posting Rules Reminder

[Michael Andrew Uhl <mikeuhl -at- MINDSPRING -dot- COM>]

Esteemed TECHWR-L colleagues:

I agree with John Posada's comments (provided below), but I would like to add
something. There are other listservers that focus on language issues, such as
the copyediting listserver. It's a gray boundary where detailed discussion of
usage, spelling, etc. leaves the TECHWR-L domain and enters the copy editing
domain. That's why it's great to have Eric around to maintain some control
over this chaos. ;-)

-Mike
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Michael Andrew Uhl (mailto:mikeuhl -at- mindspring -dot- com)
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John Posada wrote:

> What we have here is the difference in the following analogy:  All
> scotch is whiskey, but not all whiskey is Scotch.
>
> There are many areas of language that are more strongly related to other
> areas than with technical communication.  The old Ebonics discussion is
> a case in point.  While is had to do with communication, it was more
> strongly related to areas of culture, socio-econamics, etc.  it was
> detirmined that it was not an appropriate discussion for technical
> communication.
>
> To get back to your question, I don't believe that just because it has
> to do with communication, that it automaticaly applies to technical
> communication.
>

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