Re: can you think of an example of 'click on' used in a grammatically incorrect way?

Subject: Re: can you think of an example of 'click on' used in a grammatically incorrect way?
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:09:41 -0800


Bonnie Granat wrote:

"Click on" in a GUI context is never correct,

Horsefeathers.


but it's not for a grammatical reason. The reason is that the word
"click" in a GUI context includes the concept of "on." In other
words, what "click" means in this context is that you place your
mouse pointer over the named item and press the left mouse button.
"Click" has no meaning in a GUI context unless its meaning is
"get ON the object."

I assume you mean "click [not 'get'] ON the object," and I say it's entirely a matter of interpretation.

When I "click" in a GUI context, I'm clicking the left mouse button, not the pattern of pixels on the screen. I "click on" GUI objects.

I actually prefer the older "select" and "choose" model, but that's fallen out of style, which kind of proves my point.

Of course, I'll write it any old way the client requires: "Click OK," "Click the OK button," "Click on the OK button," ...

--David

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can you think of an example of 'click on' used in a grammatically incorrect way?: From: Elizabeth OShea
Re: can you think of an example of 'click on' used in a grammatically incorrect way?: From: Bonnie Granat

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