RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

Subject: RE: Display, Displays, or Appears
From: "Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:09:05 -0400

I guess where we're coming from is that to say something "appears,"
implied that it magically appears -- POOF! Like Cinderella's fairy god
mother APPEARED to her.

(I assume you're use of the word "muggle" was a reference to Harry
Potter.)

-----Original Message-----
From: McLauchlan, Kevin [mailto:Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com]

Attempting to muggle through, David Downing admitted, right out loud,
that:
>
> At my work, we generally use "displays," or "Is displayed," although
I'm
> not it's officially codified in our style manual. The feeling around
> here seems to be that "appears" creates a sense of some sort of
magical,
> supernatural occurrence.

It appears to me that that feeling is wrong, in the most mundane of
ways.

Kevin



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