RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

Subject: RE: Display, Displays, or Appears
From: "Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>
To: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>, "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 08:31:15 -0600

Dan Goldstein wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> The American Heritage Dictionary disagrees with you: "INTRANSITIVE
VERB:
> Computer Science: To provide information or graphics on a screen."
>
> Happy Friday,

Damn descriptivists -- they oughta be horse-whipped. Next thing you
know, they'll be calling "text" a verb. :-)

Know your audience, I guess. We old curmudgeons stumble when we read
"XYZ displays" and find it followed by a period instead of the noun we
expected to see.

Happy Friday, I suppose. Grumble, grumble...

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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303-777-0436
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References:
Re: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Chris Morton
RE: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Daniel Ng
RE: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Combs, Richard
RE: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Dan Goldstein

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