Re: Your opinions again, please

Subject: Re: Your opinions again, please
From: Mike Pope <mikep -at- ASYMETRIX -dot- COM>
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 10:28:00 PDT

>When this discussion came up a while ago, there were several people who
>felt strongly that "appears" is inappropriate because of its magical
>connotations. However, I've seen it used before, it's been recommended
>to me by editors, and the dictionary doesn't give any definitions that
>sound remotely magical (though the thesaurus does list "emanate" and
>"materialize" as synonyms, among a number of more prosaic ones).

I think we're overlooking here the fact that it *IS* kind of magical that
screens appear and all that. We're just too jaded, is all.

<g>

-- Mike Pope
mikep -at- asymetrix -dot- com


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