RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

One would. That's why I used scare quotes.

Leonard

-----Original Message-----
From: Milan Davidovic [mailto:milan -dot- lists -at- gmail -dot- com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:26 AM
To: Leonard C. Porrello
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Display, Displays, or Appears

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Leonard C. Porrello
<Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has done empirical research on how "The Average
User
> (TM)" understands "appears" as used in a user's guide. I probably love
> theory more than most, but it appears to me that only empirical data
can
> put this issues to rest.

To plan to gather that data you'd first have to stipulate (or
describe) "average", wouldn't you?

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