Re: Intransitive triggering

Subject: Re: Intransitive triggering
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 13:17:34 -0500



From: "Mark L. Levinson" <mark_levinson -at- yahoo -dot- com>

>
> If you reply, please cc me at
> mark_levinson -at- yahoo -dot- com .
>
> I'm wondering about the intransitive use of the
> verb "to trigger." I know that if you're a program
> or a procedure, to run and to be run are the same
> thing. But if a procedure runs automatically each
> time a particular parameter is reset, is it
> reasonable to say that "the procedure will trigger"
> upon parameter reset, or must we say that the
> procedure "will be triggered"?
>

If I saw "the procedure will trigger" and there was no object, I'd think you
lost a bit of text. <g>

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Bonnie Granat
Granat Editorial Services
http://www.editors-writers.info




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Intransitive triggering: From: Mark L. Levinson

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