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Re:Why Google Employees Quit by cdibona on Sunday January 18, 2009 @08:30PM (#439907)
Honestly, I have no clue. I've not sat in those committees and I've only seen a few of the tech writer packets, and I was at best observing (I don't know much about that group).

If I were you I'd track down Tom Galloway, he used to work in that team and he's on the internets. He's a friendly guy and likely to reply substantively to you. I've heard the writing test is....something.

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Re:Why Google Employees Quit by indiejade on Sunday January 18, 2009 @09:03PM (#439939)
Your use of four ellipses is in poor syntax. ;) It should be: three periods with one space in between each.

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But nonetheless; thank you for replying. I very much appreciate the content of your reply.

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Re:Why Google Employees Quit by blasdel on Sunday January 18, 2009 @09:40PM (#439968)
It should be: three periods with one space in between each.

No! There's an ellipsis character: '…'

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Re:Why Google Employees Quit by hollerith on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @07:57AM (#443146)
Yes! That way users relying on non-Unicode software or without huge font packages installed correctly see garbage.
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Re:Why Google Employees Quit by anonyreliant on Monday January 19, 2009 @03:07AM (#440217)
It should be three periods when it comes in the middle of a sentence, and four periods when it finishes a sentence....
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Re:Why Google Employees Quit by cdibona on Sunday January 18, 2009 @10:41PM (#440018)
really, with one space between each? That's probably one of the many reasons I'm not a tech writer :-)
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