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A lighten-up topic for Friday which was, like, inspired by conversations
with, like, my 8- and 11-year-old grandsons who are currently, like, visiting
with us.
What if the dry, sometimes boring Principles of Operation had been written
in the pop American style of spoken English? We might see something like the
following:
"LOAD, you know, ADDRESS?? [1]
Like, the address specified by the, you know, X2, B2, and, you know, D2
fields is, like, actually placed in general register R1?? The address
computation, like, totally follows the rules for address arithmetic?? In the 24-bit
addressing mode, the address is, you know, like totally placed in bit
positions, like, 40-63, bits 32-39 are actually set to, like, zeros, and bits 0-31
essentially remain unchanged?? Check it out, Dude! [3]"
Thankfully, technical writers do not write the way people speak.
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THANK GOD. Now if the technical writers would just learn the Queen's
English.....
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