Who's ever written any 'official' material?

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Who's ever written any 'official' material?

Post by Dylan » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:38 pm

Still working on that user manual for Quest3D 3.0 myself. Lots of work, really.

So far I've always felt my English is adequate. I managed to get a good grade in highschool, and years of chatting with native speakers served as good experience.

Appearantly, my written English can get a bit hard to understand. I'm guessing that it's just my style of writing that can be a bit 'scientific' and compact at times.

But on more than one occasion, people have been commenting on my syntax and choice of words. And on more than one occasion, they have been making absurd propositions.

I love to learn new things and become better at what I do. But they are simply offering false options. What they say is incorrect English, not only regarding spelling, but especially concerning idiomata.


I don't dare imagine they 'correct' my manual. I started this job exactly because the last manual was a work of horror.


How about any of you guys and girls? Ever had a similar experience?

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Post by Obfleur » Mon Jan 03, 2005 2:41 pm

Me confused :(
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Post by Dylan » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:01 pm

You Swookie! :p

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Post by Eline » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:20 pm

If they want to 'correct' something that is already correct to something horrible, can you prove this to them?

That would make things easier.


The people in my office speak a very charming Swedish-English :)

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Post by Nebbie » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:27 pm

I don't know about anybody else, but I've never had any problems understanding you. Remember, people live to criticize. I wouldn't worry about it unless it was somebody important. *hugs*
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Post by Obfleur » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:28 pm

Eline wrote:The people in my office speak a very charming Swedish-English :)
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Dylan: are you enjoying doing all of this? The demo, the manual, etc :)
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Post by Dylan » Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:55 pm

Thanks for your replies, ladies!

Eline: at times I simply can't understand what they are suggesting. Plural when it's not, past tense when it's not, overdoses of the word 'some'...

Anyway.

Obfleur: certainly! I'm very excited about this project, and I do think I'll allow myself to be a bit proud when it's done! :)

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Post by Metal Vendetta » Mon Jan 03, 2005 10:20 pm

I've had a couple of letters in Viz, and one or two in the Metro :)
I would have waited a ******* eternity for this!!!!
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Post by Hound » Mon Jan 03, 2005 10:46 pm

I wrote a couple of articles for Computer Publishing Magazine a few years ago, and also wrote 8000 words for the .net Web guide. Both were published by Future :D
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Post by Guest » Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:17 pm

I had a letter printed in SFX, which is also published by Future. :D

My letter to TFUK, however, was not published and I therefore did not receive a minibot. :(

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Re: Who's ever written any 'official' material?

Post by Denyer » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:04 am

Dylan wrote:What they say is incorrect English, not only regarding spelling, but especially concerning idiomata.
Any examples?

I'd say your use of idiom is several orders of magnitude more developed than that of many people here...

Hmm... publishing? Nothing really springs to mind unless you count band websites or things which have gone on record with branches of foreign government. I mean, I've contributed to fairly informal prospectuses, newsletters and the suchlike, but nothing I'd consider particularly noteworthy.
Dylan wrote:overdoses of the word 'some'
Qualifiers and conditionals do have their uses, though some variety is to be preferred...

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Post by Dylan » Tue Jan 04, 2005 7:40 am

Sounds good, people!

Example:

'The start channel first calls a channel that clears the screen, next calls a channel that draws some stuff and finally calls a channel that does some logic.'

:eek: :D

I'll look for more, there's funny stuff in the old manual...

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Post by spiderfrommars » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:10 pm

Co-wrote an interactive murder mystery for the BBC Oxford website. Also co-wrote a radio play that should air later this year.

And I wrote the Bible. Thats not really official tho.

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Post by Denyer » Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:11 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:And I wrote the Bible.
"To my darling Candy. All characters portrayed within this book are fictitous and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental."
'The start channel first calls a channel that clears the screen, next calls a channel that draws some stuff and finally calls a channel that does some logic.'
Ouch.

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