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> So my question is: Is there an outside chance that the sentence "When
> you click the Home page icon, the Techwhirler Home page displays" will
> pass muster in the tech writing world?
> None of my readers - native English speakers all - have so far come back
> to me with complaints about my earlier intransigent use of the
> intransitive "displays" (if you detect any pun there, however bad, it's
> intended). From which I conclude that it belongs in the Andrew Platonian
> font-fondling league and hence readers really wouldn't care.
So you use "displays" and no one cares... I don't see the problem.
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