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Subject:Re: dictator's - language From:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:53:38 -0800
Maggie Pierce Secara wrote:
>
> hmm, good point. The language could be adapted in any
> case, it seems to me. "Forcibly" sounds like there
> are sledge-hammers involved.
It just means they can do it regardless of whether the user wants them to.
I probably wouldn't use it, but it wouldn't bother me if I saw it, especially in an admin doc.
--David
P.S. Isn't *anyone* gonna venture an explanation of "dictator's"?
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