RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

But it doesn't appear to be the case that the most common usage of
appear is for magical events. You appear to be confused about this. And
I appear to be yanking your chain... apparently.

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> Subject: RE: Display, Displays, or Appears
> 
> 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.)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McLauchlan, Kevin [mailto:Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com]
> 
> 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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