When the thesaurus attacks...

["M Rassmussen" <mrassmussen -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

I'll keep this vague, in case one of my co-workers is lurking.  I don't want 
to embarrass the offender.  Well, the one *I* consider an offender.

Co-worker A is creating a training package for a piece of electronic 
equipment that runs a certain software program.  She asked me to do a sanity 
check on what she has so far, and I found only two sentences that sent me 
into convulsions.

She wrote: "From the piece of electronic equipment, INVOKE the software 
program."

I would have gone with "run" or "open" because "invoke," as I explained to 
her, makes me think of pasty-faced Satanic teens frolicking in the woods 
trying to animate Our Dark Lord.

Later on, she told the user to RELOCATE a window to an undisplayed area.  
Wouldn't "move" be okay?

She thinks my points are silly, but I think it boils down to keeping it 
simple.  What do you fine people think?  Should she keep those verbs or go 
with my WONDERFUL suggestions?

-Michelle


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