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Subject:RE: Turn off the monitor vs turn the monitor off From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:02:07 -0500
I just avoid the ambiguity - if not the placement concern - by saying:
Switch off the device.
or
Power off the device.
- Kevin
PS: By the way, could you folks please trim off the accumulation of
administrivia and old sigs that pile up at the end of threaded posts?
There'll be new administrivia attached to each new post, so you don't
have to preserve it. And nobody - not even lawyers - wants to see
multiple sets of pseudo-legalese (such as will be stuck to the bottom of
this message. Anybody getting a digest version will bless you for
applying edit-iquette.
Now, here comes that "legal" bumph.
Coming...
Still coming...
Why are you still here? The message is over...
I can't believe that you have nothing better to do...
Get a life...
All that time, and scrolling, and all you get is...
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