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>We had a sentence that told the user:
>"The toolbar buttons trigger commands that are also found
>on menus."
>I thought "trigger" sounded too technical
One problem is that "trigger" is perfectly good noun. Almost sounds
like you have a tool bar with buttons and the buttons have triggers.
You could also add "commands" to that noun string to really sabotage
a novice reader.
This is the sort of thing we get paid big bucks to fix (a little year-end
humor).
