"Appears" vs. "will appear"

[Mike Starr]

I'd suggest if your localization vendor has a problem with the common usage 
of a term, it's time to seek a more qualified localization vendor. If you 
were using machine translation, I could understand adopting a "single use 
for all terms" approach but real translators ought to be able to read a 
sentence and understand easily from context that I'm not talking about LCD 
or CRT displays. As far as I'm concerned, any translator who expresses 
difficulty with something as easy as this is incompetent.

Mike
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Janice Gelb" <janice.gelb at sun.com>
To: <techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: "Appears" vs. "will appear"

> Mike Starr wrote:
>>
>> Choose the File>>Save menu item. <software product> displays the Save
>> dialog box.
>>
>> What's wrong with that??
>>
>
> We avoid using "display" as a verb because
> it is often also used as a noun ("on the
> display") and localization gets touchy about
> that kind of double usage.
>
> -- Janice
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