Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!caip!meccts!dicome!mmm!mkr From: mkr@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Writing, programming, music and mechanics Message-ID: <1005@mmm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jul-86 11:05:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mmm.1005 Posted: Wed Jul 2 11:05:43 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 04:59:46 EDT References: <2671@sdcc6.UUCP> <1445@ihuxn.UUCP> <2679@sdcc6.UUCP> <1452@ihuxn.UUCP> <1982@osu-eddie.UUCP> Reply-To: mkr@mmm.UUCP (MKR) Organization: none Lines: 15 In article <1982@osu-eddie.UUCP> zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) writes: > >You write as if a person who cannot write clearly cannot think clearly. >In fact, it is perfectly possible to be able to think and not to write, >and perfectly possible to think clearly but badly. Writing is a skill. >One of the reasons it is important is that many otherwise reasonable people >continue to believe that bad writing is a result of bad thinking. > > Elzabeth D. Zwicky But, even if you can think clearly, if you don't write (or speak) clearly, how's anyone going to know? And if no one knows, what difference does it make? --MKR