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FW: software control terms -- To "choose" is passive?
Subject:FW: software control terms -- To "choose" is passive? From:"Butler, Darren J Ctr 584 CBSS/GBHAC" <Darren -dot- Butler -dot- ctr -at- Robins -dot- af -dot- mil> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:09:50 -0400
On 4-Sep-07 @12:18:00 PM Darren J Butler wrote:
Blessings,
Darren
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Darren J. Butler
Sr. Technical Writer-Editor, Template Wrangler, Mil-Spec Pharisee
Integrated Data for Maintenance
NG Corp
-----Original Message-----
From: Butler, Darren J Ctr 584 CBSS/GBHAC
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:59 PM
To: 'Yves JEAUROND'
Subject: RE: software control terms -- To "choose" is passive?
So....entreators can't be selectors?
Hey, I did write "in my view" and "IMHO."
Even though our subject matter is usually scientific, the means of coveying the material is often an subjective art and that is driven by the undertanding of the audience or the prefferance of the author. This sort of thing drives my trainee crazy. I end up having to edit his work because I have more experience with the target audience and the writing style of the local office. Ocasionally, we've all had to choke-down being garmmatically correct in order to ensure a paying customer understood what-the-heck button they needed to push ;-).
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From: Yves JEAUROND [mailto:jingting -at- rogers -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:20 PM
To: Butler, Darren J Ctr 584 CBSS/GBHAC; Susan W Gallagher
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: software control terms -- To "choose" is passive?
Darren you are right that choose and select convey the same idea.
Then you add that "to choose" is too passive? Huh?
choose. OED1, to pick out as being the best...
select. OED1, carefully choose as being the best...
If users can't just plain choose, what is this world coming to? :-)
Cheers,
YJ
"Butler, Darren J Ctr 584 CBSS/GBHAC" <Darren -dot- Butler -dot- ctr -at- Robins -dot- af -dot- mil> a écrit :
FWIW - I use "select" as my "go-to" verb whenever an action can be
achieved by multiple methods [...] The word "choose" (in my
view) conveys the same idea but is too passive. One can choose an option
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