nuckolls.bob(at)aeroelect
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 Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 9:13 am Post subject: Words as parts |
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At 09:37 AM 10/11/2013, you wrote:
| Quote: | --> AeroElectric-List message posted by: Peter Pengilly <peter(at)sportingaero.com>
Good luck, sir! I have always found that the English language, in either the Queen's or US dialect, was a remarkably poor tool for such a task. Its a challenge to which we must all pay particular heed as the alternatives are not very attractive. |
Yes, it'a a challenge . . . combined with infinite
opportunity. Consider a bucket-load of assorted
electronics components, nuts, bolts, enclosures
and wire. Then consider the dictionary occupying
a place of high stature on stands in thousands
of libraries . . . 500,000+ words?
These two conglomerates have a common
opportunity to craft parts/words into an
assembly with value to others. Words can be used
to inform, entertain, persuade and injure.
So it is with that bucket full of parts.
Efficient use of words/parts is an acquired
skill. Design goals must be tailored to the
work-product's end-use. Design goals for
technical writing MAY include elements of
information, persuasion and entertainment.
That's the stuff I like to do in my writing
for the OBAM aviation readers.
Technical writing for industry needs to
be as trim, direct and invariable as the words
used to program a computer or to describe the recipe
for a fine dish. It's a different kind of
writing. Technical writing often speaks to
individuals for whom English is not a first
language.
This job will dictate that I trade the fun-hat
for the information-hat. First to craft
a sub-set dictionary of words that have singular
meaning and chosen to be the preferred term
for that meaning within the discipline. Then
study and teach ways to craft the elegant
sentence. A task no different than crafting
the elegant circuit or software routine.
Minimize the variety and numbers of parts/words while meeting design goals. The writing goal is to maximize concentricity of images/ideas between a writer and reader.
My task would be no different were the root
language anything other than English.
Bob . . . [quote][b]
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