RE: Display or appear -- the smarmy alternatives

Subject: RE: Display or appear -- the smarmy alternatives
From: Jason Willebeek-LeMair <jlemair -at- cisco -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:38:53 -0500

Personally, I like "appears". It may seem mystical and magical, but with
some of the projects I have worked on, mystery and magic was involved in
getting those little buggers to appear.

Some smarmy alternatives:

* manifests

* becomes readily apparent

* coagulates

* announces itself in a display of light and motion

* makes its presence known

* shoves its red, swollen ass in the air in hopes of attracting a mate (for
those who like the intransitive use of displays)


Jason



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