Re: Appears vs Displays

[Lorraine Kiewiet <lkiewiet -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Regarding Keith's comment:

P.S. BTW, I had a colleague who abhorred the use of the word "appears"
or "will appear." She said it made the process sound magical
("Abracadabra! It appears!") So she would write a sentence like this:

...


We had the same colleague!  And she had seniority, so I wrote, "The dialog box displays."  Active voice. I don't like using "displays" in this way because it reminds me of what some people refer to as a monitor (or if you're really old, a CRT). 

And you know, working with computers since the early 80s, I think it IS magic! So Abracadabra and happy Friday everyone!
 
--Lorraine

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