Technical Manual Blues

[mythteller]

I just can't let this go. Gods save us from the people who write the way they speak.

While editing a technical manual, I found the word "Ditto".

Ditto.

It's like finding the word "Dude" in a legal contract. Oy.

Comments

[luckytroll.livejournal.com]

I used to occasionally put a graphic in the corner of a page that said "lick this spot, you may be one of the lucky 25!"

Sometimes it got through editing, sometimes it didnt.

Or perhaps they licked the spot.

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Back when I used to build menus in DOS for people I sold computers to, or fixed, I would always a menu item "5", which would say "Please do no use". Of course, most people would try it first of all...and be greeted to 240+ Control-Gs!

[swestrup]

I now have a wicked urge to draw up a legal contract using the word 'Dude'.

"Henceforth the party of the first part, hereinafter the 'The Gnarly Dude', and the party of the second part, hereinafter 'The Bodacious Corporation', agree to a covenant to 'party down' as set forth herein."

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

*twitch*

*twitch*

*twitch*

[kallisti.livejournal.com]

Well, if it was a technical manual for a Spirit Duplicator, it would make sense, as "Ditto" was a brand of Spirit duplicator. Many publications over the years in Science Fiction Fandom were done using "Ditto" machines, which lead to a vast lore of filks, in-jokes and even a play about the "Enchanted Duplicator", since it duplicates "Spirits"!

And I bet you never wanted to know all that. Suffer. :-)