...Well folks here's one example.
This is a snippet of a report that just came my way and it is typical of the sort of writing that passes for English around our company on a given day. You'll get the best take on these two sentences - yes, they really are, unless Priscilla Long writes back and says they're not - by running the phonetics over your tongue as you read.
"We have implemented MIL-STD-188-220D CN#1, includg R-NAD, DAP-NAD, DAV-NAD, Type 1, Type 3, and XNP. We are currently testing XNP in prep for FQT in AUG."
As much as I hate to admit it I can actually read and understand what is being said here. Explaining it to you would take a page or two. So maybe there is something to be said for engineering shorthand after all. No one with their wits about them would ever want to read a pageful of prose on this topic. This is not the post I promised my group but I just found out I can post from Google Docs and I wanted to test it out to see if it worked as advertised. I also wanted to knock the last post off teh top of the pile since I have the Taos blog linked to my blog and the 'cottage' issue is none to appealing a header. -rgh
