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Subject:RE: Displays versus Appears-Which One? From:Sally Hoskins <shoskins -at- paysys -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:09:29 -0600
Michael West wrote:
>"Displays" without an object, on the other
>hand, is ungrammatical according to most
>standard usage guides--though it is never
>hard to find inexperienced writers who think
>they're way too clever to use those stuffy
>old rulebooks.
<snip>
I started learning English as a second language more than 40 years ago. We used those good old rulebooks then. Some of the painful things I go through now as a writer are "unlearning" what I thought were unchangeable grammatical rules, and "conforming" to team writing standards that I don't agree with. The use of "Displays" as an intransitive verb was first imposed on me as a writer about 8 years ago. It was painful then, not so now.
Cheers and "Hello Mike"
Sally Hoskins
Melbourne, Australia
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