Re: Displays vs. Appears
Bill Swallow wrote:
So you use "displays" and no one cares... I don't see the problem.
Some finicky editors do. :)
It's not just so-called "finicky editors"--some of us figure that, since there's a perfectly good and familiar word for the concept, we should use it, rather than bending another word to a task for which it is grammatically unsuited. (I feel the same way about "impact" as a verb, which is almost always incorrectly used in place of "affect.")
--David
P.S. It's funny how the people who disagree with us are described in
pejorative terms like "finicky," while those who agree with us
appear--or should I say "display"--to possess greater insight.
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