Re: appears vs is displayed

["Huber, Mike" <mrhuber -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM>]

Actually, if we are worried about changed meanings in translation, I'm
willing to bet money that there are languages and cultures where the
translation of the intransitive version of "display" is considered
obscene.

>----------
>From:  John Kohl[SMTP:sasjqk -at- UNX -dot- SAS -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Tuesday, March 25, 1997 9:20 AM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       Re: appears vs is displayed
>
>In article <1997Mar25 -dot- 093956+0000 -at- dburke -dot- tydac -dot- com>, Diane Burke
><dburke -at- RIGEL -dot- TYDAC -dot- COM> writes:

>NO-O-O-O!  Sorry, but this is one of my pet peeves.  "display" is a
>transitive verb--you cannot (or should not) use it without a direct
>object.  I.e., you can display SOMETHING, or you can say that something
>IS DISPLAYED, but if you use "display" in active voice without a direct
>object, it refers to a bird (such as a peacock) displaying its feathers
>to another bird in a mating ritual. (Look it up--that's the intransitive
>definition in Webster's.)
>

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