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Subject:Click On From:Daniel Strychalski <dski -at- CAMEONET -dot- CAMEO -dot- COM -dot- TW> Date:Thu, 13 Jul 1995 02:29:04 +0800
Josee Sevigny wrote that in the manuals her group produces, one never clicks
_on_ a thing but rather clicks the thing.
Hooray for you, Josee. That is the elegant, economical way this action was
described in the earliest Macintosh and W!&# -at- *$ manuals.
"Click on" really bothers me. Every time I see it I want to say, "Quick,
Scottie, the Clickons are coming!" I wrote a long article on the subject
for _Circuit_, the STC ROC newsletter, and titled it "Click On, MacDuff."
That was two years ago -- and still people click on and on and on and on....
I see "click on," I click off. It's that simple.
Dan Strychalski dski -at- cameonet -dot- cameo -dot- com -dot- tw
