RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Hi Richard,

The American Heritage Dictionary disagrees with you: "INTRANSITIVE VERB:
Computer Science: To provide information or graphics on a screen."

Happy Friday,

Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:13 AM
> To: Daniel Ng; chrismorton11 -at- gmail -dot- com; Tim Lewis; 
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> Subject: RE: Display, Displays, or Appears
> 
> Except when describing certain male birds' attempts 
> to attract mates, "displays" is a transitive verb. 
> It requires an object. ABC dialog box displays what? 
> 

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