On Mon, 02 Nov 1998 09:43:42 +0000, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>I'd be most grateful to all who could spare time to respond to the queries
>below.
>1. Were you aware of the convention of using an initial capital for a drug's
>trade name and no capital for its generic name?
Yes
>2. Would you bother/try to follow this rule in a referral letter to
>hospital/letter to a colleague?
Yes
>3. Would you notice/care if a consultant's letter got it wrong
(a) consistently Yes
>(b) inconsistently (e.g '. . . prescribe either cefotaxime or Ceftriaxone . .
Yes
>4. Would you correct your secretary for such errors?
Yes (if I had one!)
>5. If you were into voice recognition [and it is getting prety good], would you buy a vocabulary add-on with these anomalies?
No
>6. Is life too short to worry about such petty things?
No. Language is pretty difficient as it is for many purposes,
particularly so when one is trying to express complex thoughts and
ideas. As a non-native English speaker, I am astonished how the
natives, specially the higher educated, use English so poorly.
My next piece? The rape of a language.
Risk
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