Michael Mertinooke <[email protected]> wrote (in <NDBBLNHMGOBDEBBGO [email protected]>) about 'Radiated emission testing acc. to ETSI EN 301 489', on Tue, 8 Mar 2005:
>I suggest reviewing "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy", on Bistro >Mathics. It is entirely possible that public beaneries define a >spacetime singularity of a sort. When removed to a section of "normal" >space, the text may become inexplicably garbled. Some of our colleagues carry a very high value of garble charge, and some of those are 'native English speakers'. The garbling field can penetrate several pages unobserved, thus an apparently innocent change to clause 3 can render clause 8 complete nonsense. (:-( > >As for finding writers, I do sincerely suggest that at least one member >of the team be a non-technical, professional writer. There is no funding for such luxuries. We did have a professional writer on a terminology group. It didn't work; she always favoured 'literary' words over technical ones. For example, for her, a most important property of a CD was 'iridescence'. >I say this in full >knowledge that you (and presumably others on the team) are perfectly >well educated and competent in the care and feeding of the English >language. Not all of us. See above. >By the time you get the concept through his/her skull, the >meaning will have been stripped to the bare essentials. There is a 'virginity' problem. A non-technical writer intelligent and receptive enough to do the job would soon cease to be non-technical and would thus need to be replaced. I had this experience once with a lawyer; after I explained how a linear power supply worked, he started to design them for his own amusement! -- Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only. The good news is that nothing is compulsory. The bad news is that everything is prohibited. http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
