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   Message 143,966 of 144,800   
   William Vetter to All   
   Re: Cantata in Coral and Ivory   
   11 Dec 14 18:45:33   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   Brian M. Scott pretended :   
   > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 06:23:39 -0500, William Vetter   
   >  wrote in   
   >  in   
   > rec.arts.sf.composition:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >> For a few years, I was taking pictures for a guy at NASA   
   >> Glenn, and he sent me a manuscript with my name on the   
   >> masthead for to comment/correct.  And this guy was   
   >> otherwise very agreeable to work with, but it took me   
   >> hours to figure out what he was even talking about when I   
   >> read his manuscripts.  It was full of lines like   
   >   
   >> "The substrate was reticulated."   
   >   
   > Not a very good example:  is a bog standard   
   > technical term in several fields, and I’ve been familiar   
   > with  since before I hit my teens.  This is   
   > clear technical language.   
   >   
      
   Tell me what they would mean in solid state science, if you know so   
   much about clear technical language.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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