Le 14/01/2012 19:26, Walter Bright a écrit :
On 1/14/2012 12:36 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
I confess that it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine when people insist on
avoiding words like you and your. I completely disagree that it's a
problem.
And there are times where avoiding it can cause problems and make the
text
more awkward (though it is true that you can often avoid it fairly
easily if
you really want to).
(though it is true that it can be avoided fairly easily)
Fixed that for you. What advantage does the "you" version have, besides
upping the word count?
But I know that there are plenty of technical writers who would agree
with
you.
I cannot recall any professional technical book that used "you" (yes,
I'm sure you can find an example!). It's like wearing jeans to a wedding.
« The linker will fluently and baroquely remind you of that in its
native language, encrypted klingon »
Copied verbatim from a certain book I'm sure you know about ;) But I
have too agrre, some you is good, too much of it isn't in a technical paper.
