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Re: can you think of an example of 'click on' used in a grammatically incorrect way?
Subject:Re: can you think of an example of 'click on' used in a grammatically incorrect way? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:16:44 -0500
dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com wrote:
> Bonnie Granat wrote:
>>
>> That's the point. For "click" to make any sense whatsoever to a
user,
>> one needs to be over something. So "Click _OK_" is clear to many
>> people who can see a "thing" with "OK" written on it.
>
> But you're assuming that everyone thinks of "clicking" the same way
> you do. As I've explained, I think of the mouse button as the
thing
> I click--it's certainly what makes the clicking sound.
>
> So, for me, the verb "click" applies to what I do to the mouse
button;
> "click on" is what I do to a simulated button in the GUI.
>
Aha! I see.
>>
>> ...they can't "click" unless they ARE on.
>
> Only if we ascribe the same meaning to "click" as you do. Clearly,
> not everyone thinks of it that way, so it's quite right to say "In
> this context 'Click on' is perfectly acceptable."
>
> That's what I meant when I said it's a matter of interpretation and
> preference.
>
Yes, I see now.
>>
>> Yup. Maybe "never" was too strong a word, after all.
>
> And that "never" is all *I* was referring to when I wrote
> "horsefeathers."
>
> --David
>
> P.S. I'm gonna take that "catalyst for clarity and excellence"
thing
> as compliement, in case you meant it that way.
> ;)
>
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