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- From: marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Charactor Titles
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.213821.252@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
- References: <1992Aug11.183335.25640@pellns.alleg.edu> <1992Aug12.181748.25485@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:38:21 GMT
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- In a recent misc.writing article, nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal Nadeau) wrote:
- >
- > [good stuff deleted]
- >
- >Beyond this, there's a world of information out there - wander over to
- >the nearest library or bookstore and check things out. Doing one's
- >research may be a bit more work than just asking in public forums, but
- >it's usually worth it (I usually discover more than I was looking for,
- >and the extra is worth the effort).
-
- Not only that, but if you post to a public forum like this one, you may
- get answers which are wrong, answers which are right some of the time
- but not in the instance you were thinking of but you didn't post enough
- detail so that the answerer knew that, answers which are right in one
- part of the world but not in another, and other answers which won't work
- for you. But the only way you'll find that out is if you check out the
- answers you got, which amounts to doing the research you could have
- done in the first place.
-
- In fact, I spotted at least one answer of the right-in-part-of-the-world-
- only in the answers which have been posted so far, as well as a fairly
- eqregious omission in one of the answer sets posted so far.
-
- >One rule of writing, of course, is Write What You Know. Maybe it
- >would be more useful to think of this as: Know What You Write.
-
- Right-o.
-
- Marcy
-
-
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-
- Marcy Thompson
- SoftQuad (West)
- marcy@sq.com
-