Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Raiding the Thesaurus

"We need a "Quick Start" guide for DB2 Servers," said one technical writer to another.
"Yes, we do, but I am tired of calling it a "Quick Start" guide. We should call it something else," replied the second technical writer.
"I know," said the first. "We can look in a thesaurus for alternate words that mean the same thing as 'start' because I like the adjective 'quick' in the title. It tells the user that they can expect information and begin to do their tasks."
"Wait!" There was silence. "What did you just say?"
"I said it tells the user that they can expect information and begin to do their tasks."
"Brilliant! We don't need a thesaurus when you're around."

And that is how this documentation was crowned to have "Quick Beginnings for DB2 Servers" on the title page:


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