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I guess where we're coming from is that to say something "appears,"
implied that it magically appears -- POOF! Like Cinderella's fairy god
mother APPEARED to her.
(I assume you're use of the word "muggle" was a reference to Harry
Potter.)
Attempting to muggle through, David Downing admitted, right out loud,
that:
>
> At my work, we generally use "displays," or "Is displayed," although
I'm
> not it's officially codified in our style manual. The feeling around
> here seems to be that "appears" creates a sense of some sort of
magical,
> supernatural occurrence.
It appears to me that that feeling is wrong, in the most mundane of
ways.
Kevin
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