Re: "via" - why often verboten ?

Subject: Re: "via" - why often verboten ?
From: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
To: Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 18:01:41 -0700

On the rare occasions I use "via," it's precisely to emphasize the way
something is accessed. For example, you can do certain operations on
an object in the UI but others only via the command line.

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> I canât say this right but I want to say something along the lines that
> âviaâ puts emphasis on the access to a function rather than the means to
> function or the function. In an instruction, there is the how and there is
> the what, and then there is how the how gets to the what. I canât find the
> right way to say this. My point is that via puts (or can put) the emphasis
> in the wrong part of the instruction. ...
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References:
"via" - why often verboten ?: From: Monique Semp
Re: "via" - why often verboten ?: From: Robin Whitmore
Re: "via" - why often verboten ?: From: sharipunyon
RE: "via" - why often verboten ?: From: Wright, Lynne
Re: "via" - why often verboten ?: From: sharipunyon
RE: "via" - why often verboten ?: From: Wright, Lynne
Re: "via" - why often verboten ?: From: Lauren

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