RE: "Appears" vs. "will appear"

Subject: RE: "Appears" vs. "will appear"
From: linda_sims -at- vanguard -dot- com
To: "Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:36:47 -0400

Sarah Bouchier wrote on 05/03/2007 01:03:14 PM:

> >I use "displays" instead of "appears." But I have no good reason why.
> >Just a preference.
>
> The problem I always have with that is that when I see a sentence such
> as 'Click X. The X window displays' I mentally wait to find out what it
> is that the X window displays.

I like "is displayed" instead of "appears" or "displays". My reasoning is
that the window, pane, frame, what-have-you, is displayed by the computer
application. I consider the last four words to be the same as "you" in
second-person imperative statements; it doesn't have to be said because
it's already implied.

Lin Sims
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