Re: documentation going away

Subject: Re: documentation going away
From: Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:55:16 -0800

On 1/16/2012 3:40 PM, Gene Kim-Eng wrote:

and the ever-present,
eternally annoying interchangeable ("you're/your" "it's/its"
"there/their/they're"),

I make a lot of homophonic errors. I think it's a muscle memory sort of issue, where I type the first word that sounds right without double-checking if I typed the right word. I really do not proofread my posts to lists and forums as well as I do my documents, so the errors get posted.

combined with an amazing obsession with sexual and
scatological topics.

Like I said, if employers started using support forums as a substitute for documentation and then hired technical writers to document those forums, it would be a nightmare.



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