Joy Matkowski wrote: BTW, let me pass on a compliment I heard
about Navy civilians and their writing. My father was
complaining about some IRS instructions--the senior citizen
deduction guidelines are tossed together in the same
paragraphs with a slew of arcane trivia--and he said nobody
working for the Navy could get away with such sloppy
work.
************ When I first started with the Navy almost 18
years ago, the first report I handed in came back to me with
all the words
"use" struck out and replaced with "utilize." ;-) Picking up
on the art of pompous writing wasn't hard at all. The only
problem is that sometimes it's hard to turn it off and write
something honest.
miker
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