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From: Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice?
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:16:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aakee8bm.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: D35B5BED87EC4FE48C1F8E91A7A8D6BD@us.oracle.com

    There is no royal road to writing, like Math.  To write better, read more.
    Read, re-read, re-re-read, and read better what you've written (and
    rewritten...).

Right?  

I always thought `reading is miswriting and writing is misreading'
instructive.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-10  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03  3:06 emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Xah Lee
2010-10-03 11:14 ` Uday Reddy
2010-10-03 19:29   ` Russ P.
2010-10-03 19:38     ` Jay Belanger
2010-10-03 20:50       ` David Kastrup
2010-10-03 22:57         ` Russ P.
2010-10-04 18:48     ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-10-05  0:53       ` Russ P.
     [not found]         ` <ias317$dtr$2@reader1.panix.com>
2010-11-04 19:22           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-04 20:10             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-09 17:48       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10  1:16         ` Sean Sieger [this message]
2010-12-10 16:04           ` ken
2010-10-03 12:47 ` Bruce Stephens
2010-10-03 22:07 ` B. T. Raven
2010-10-04  6:52   ` David Kastrup
2010-10-05  4:02     ` B. T. Raven
2010-11-03 16:34       ` David Combs

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