RE: "Turn on the radio?"

["Secara, Maggie" <Maggie -dot- Secara -at- indymacbank -dot- com>]

How about: 
Set the radio to ON. ;-)
Verb >  Object >  Setting
I don't really think in any technical context there's *any* chance of "turn
on the radio" being taken as sexual reference.  Unless that's what's meant,
in which case, you need somethig more specific, like: Promise the radio
dinner and flowers. (Verb>Object>Setting :)  



Maggie Secara

Thus caution doth make house cats of us all.
**Henry Beard, Poetry for Cats (New York, 1994)





-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 9:05 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: "Turn on the radio?"


You have a dilemma. (Yeah, that's what it's called.)

On the one hand, your goal is to remove ambiguity. If you've ever seen a
ballerina turn on a music box, you know how turning on a radio might be
misinterpreted.

On the other hand, you want to avoid any possibility of sexual double
entendre. Turning the radio on could be construed as analogous to turning
your date on.

I'd vote for "switch the radio on," which avoids both problems.

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