Thursday, July 16, 2009

Errors That Leave a Big Mess












Are Technical Writers Infidels?

At SAP, we call technical writers "information developers", or infodevs for short. But the spellchecker has not heard this term, so it tries to correct the apparent spelling error:


Is the suggestion of infidel a coincidence? [I think NOT!]

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Writing that Makes You Sick (ad nauseum)

Here's a a piece of documentation that might actually make you sick. The writer was probably just fed up with having to write one more procedure, but at least he could have spelled ad nauseam correctly.