On Feb 24, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Instructions, even though written in the imperative, are still descriptive. The only penalty may be that your cake won't rise, or worse, you may blow yourself up and earn a Darwin Award. :-\ No penalty will be applied by any other person.
There are are two issues here of encyclopedicity (so to speak). One is the content: encyclopedia articles should be descriptive, which instructions are. The other is style: encyclopedia articles should *sound* descriptive, which instructions don't. Thus, much of this cam be cleared up by rephrasing certain sentences.
Peter
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