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Subject:Re: Your opinions again, please From:Mike Pope <mikep -at- ASYMETRIX -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 27 May 1994 10:28:00 PDT
>When this discussion came up a while ago, there were several people who
>felt strongly that "appears" is inappropriate because of its magical
>connotations. However, I've seen it used before, it's been recommended
>to me by editors, and the dictionary doesn't give any definitions that
>sound remotely magical (though the thesaurus does list "emanate" and
>"materialize" as synonyms, among a number of more prosaic ones).
I think we're overlooking here the fact that it *IS* kind of magical that
screens appear and all that. We're just too jaded, is all.
