RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Dan Goldstein wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> The American Heritage Dictionary disagrees with you: "INTRANSITIVE
VERB:
> Computer Science: To provide information or graphics on a screen."
> 
> Happy Friday,

Damn descriptivists -- they oughta be horse-whipped. Next thing you
know, they'll be calling "text" a verb. :-) 

Know your audience, I guess. We old curmudgeons stumble when we read
"XYZ displays" and find it followed by a period instead of the noun we
expected to see. 

Happy Friday, I suppose. Grumble, grumble... 

Richard


Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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