-Jeff Goldblum "Big Chill"
"You can't write anything longer than it takes to take the average shit" -Jeff Goldblum "Big Chill" And that is too long now because people text in the john.
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“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”George Bernard Shaw
Engineering reports and deliverables are, to my mind, their own genre of literature with unique conventions. The need for technical accuracy, control of risk, and legal considerations are the primary factors governing style and tone followed closely by clarity and avoidance of ambiguity.
As Murphey would put it, "If they can misunderstand it, they will misunderstand it, at the worst time and in the most foolish way." Reports, specifications and other deliverables must be written so that they can be understood by a contractor. Yet if it is misunderstood, liability will be determined by whether an attorney believes that the contractor should have been able to understand it. What an attorney thinks is understandable versus what a contractor thinks is understandable are two entirely different things. |
AuthorSemi-Retired Civil Engineer currently a student of Philosophy, Literature and Art in the context of a Great Books Curriculum at Gutenberg College Categories
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