"Ronn!Blankenship" wrote:
>
> At 09:29 PM 3/25/03 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Accurate is better than pretty. Both together are nice, but accurate is
> >more important, IMO.
>
> Ya mean like the time at one company I wrote manuals for when the marketing
> department sent out a fancy full-color sales brochure for a new system with
> the word "mnemonic" spelled "pneumonic"? FWIW, the first time any of the
> actual writers saw a copy was after they had been printed and mailed out to
> potential customers, and when someone told marketing about it, they said
> that they had asked one of the programmers how to spell it. Almost
> everyone who knew that particular programmer knew that he was a crack
> programmer but couldn't spell worth a darn, as a brief perusal of the
> comment statements in his code would show. Apparently, though, the excuse
> was that it had to be sent out by a certain deadline which meant there was
> no time to run it past anyone else.
This guy could spell, anyway, at least for *some* form of English. (I
think there may have been a mix of British and US spellings, but maybe he
used the spellcheck well and avoided that particular problem.)
Julia
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