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Subject:RE: "Turn on the radio?" From:"Cadorette Johanne" <johanne -dot- cadorette -at- locusdialog -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:27:03 -0500
Dick Margulis wrote: "On the one hand, your goal is to remove ambiguity.
If you've ever seen a ballerina turn on a music box, you know how
turning on a radio might be misinterpreted."
At the risk of inciting our installation technicians to do pirouettes on
top of our product workstations, I've just changed two instances of
"Turn on the X workstation" to "Switch the X workstation on." ;)
Johanne Cadorette
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