In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/01/2007
at 08:09 AM, "(IBM Mainframe Discussion List)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>"LOAD, you know, ADDRESS?? [1]
>Like, the address
Isn't that ValleySpeak rather than generic American pop culture? I
bel;ieve that for true American culture you need to remove the "like"
and add "uh" at the appropriate places.
>Thankfully, technical writers do not write the way people speak.
I once saw a perfectly lucid piece of IBM text cited in Analog's "This
is English?" column. I use necessary technical nomenclature, you use
jargon and he uses stilted and artificial wording.
Of course, the man on the street uses acronyms with abandon, e.g.,
RBI. Likewise the entertainment[1] networks, e.g., IED.
[1] They claim that they're news networks, but what they offer is
sound bites and filler between commercials.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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