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I hate re-writing technical documentation!

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message 1: by [deleted user] (new)

I'm having to rewrite a series of User Manuals because of sentences like this:

If, after completing the textbox of the first credentials window presented to you, and clicking Send, the second credentials window does not appear, it is possible you entered something other than your on-Line Username … perhaps your password instead.

Seriously, IT nerds (and I'm one of them), can't you guys write a User Manual properly?

No wonder our user groups are constanly confused. I have no idea what the fuck that sentence meant, either.


message 2: by Chloe (new)

Chloe (countessofblooms) It never ceases to amaze me that people who can right novels of Java, SQL, PERL, or what-have-you are completely incapable of writing a coherent sentence in English. But it keeps me employed so I can't complain too much.


message 3: by [deleted user] (new)

I am SO NOT GOING to point out the mistake in that last comment...


message 4: by [deleted user] (new)

I love you, Donna...sigh.


Reads with Scotch Worried that Donna will start critiquing my post like that...


::::Rushes from thread to thread reviewing own post, correcting them or simply removing them all together:::



message 6: by Jeremy (new)

Jeremy Needle (jeremyneedle) PCI and SOX policy manuals.

Oh yeah. HATE HATE HATE HHAATTEE them.


message 7: by EvilNick (last edited Aug 08, 2008 03:40AM) (new)

EvilNick As the sagacious Logan has identified, I believe this is a magnanimous gesture by the gear-heads to bring employment to others. It would be simply unfair if they cornered the market in writing buggy, poorly-structured software AND writing about it in a concise and straightforward fashion. I join him in a hearty "Hurrah!" for illiterate coders.



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