RE: Displays vs. Appears

["Jayaseelan Pannirselvam" <jayaseelan -dot- pannirselvam -at- ite -dot- com -dot- au>]

Bill Swallow wrote:

> So you use "displays" and no one cares... I don't see the problem.

Some finicky editors do. :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com] 
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 8:41 PM
To: Jayaseelan Pannirselvam
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Displays vs. Appears


> 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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