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Subject:Re: How do I handle this one? From:Beth Friedman <bjf -at- WAVEFRONT -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:34:32 -0500
In our previous episode, Ron D Rhodes said:
> I am collaborating with another author on a Help project. And, while
> very adept at HDK, she doesn't have any formal training in
> tech-writing, editing, grammar, etc. We are supposed to agree upon
> some writing conventions and she has adopted some very unsound
> practices. The following are just a few examples.
>
> 2. An emotional attachment to the word "display" over "appear." "The
> red screen 'displays.'"
I'd probably let this one go. It's a very common usage. The tech
writer/supervisor I'm doing my current project for insists on it also,
and while I consider it ugly, it makes writing easier in certain ways.
"Appears" has the unfortunate connotation of sounding magical, and
most other applicable verbs are intransitive.
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