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Posted: 13 August 2003 05:52 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Posted: 13 August 2003 07:19 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Too practical. It’ll never fly in this office.

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Posted: 14 August 2003 05:10 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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HAH!  Great concept!

Many, many years ago, my section chief at the US Social Security Administration thought I needed a writing course (what the heck, I was a Chemistry major, after all), so I was signed up for the course "Writing for Administrative Communications" which was taught by an English professor from a local community college.  The aim of the course was to teach bureaucrats to write in clear, simple language, rather than take three-quarters of a page to say "No."  When I returned, Hal (the section chief) changed one of my phrases in some written communication from "to" to "in order to."  I immediately grabbed the reference from the class, opened to the page which directed one to use the word "to" in place of the phrase "in order to," and shoved it in his face.  Ah, Satisfaction!

Hal was a retired Navy chief who told me he once had a one-word message changed by one of his superiors.  Someone had teletyped in for permission to do some particular thing and Hal had drafted the reply AUTHGRA for Authority Granted.  His boss changed it to PERGRA because the person already had the authority to do it, he was asking for permission.

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