RE: Display, Displays, or Appears

Subject: RE: Display, Displays, or Appears
From: "Keith Hansen" <KRH -at- weiland-wfg -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:16:30 -0500

Keith Hood wrote:
<<So you're saying that any technical writing sufficiently advanced is
magic....We may as well use "appears" and "disappears," or even
"materializes" and "vanishes.">>

How about "conjures"? (Definition: "To summon by or as if by invocation
or incantation")

Bonnie wrote:
<<That is, what isn't "magical" about life itself, after all -- that
each thing that lives starts from a cell containing the code (literally)
for the entire organism throughout its life>>

Obviously, Microsoft did NOT write the code for the cell project ....

Keith
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Follow-Ups:

References:
RE: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Downing, David
RE: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Bonnie Granat
Re: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: John Garison
RE: Display, Displays, or Appears: From: Bonnie Granat

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