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>From: "Westra, Kayla L."
>To: MILLMAN; Multiple recipients of list TECHWR-L
>Subject: Conventions
>Date: Wednesday, July 26, 1995 10:40AM
[snip]
>Another question for y'all (sorry, folks, I'm in Kansas, and the natives
>have brainwashed me):
>Do you "click on" your pushbuttons? Do you "press" your pushbuttons?
Kayla,
"Press" seems too literal and inexact. The physical action: you move the
mouse cursor over the "button" (I've not heard it called a "pushbutton"),
and click a mouse button. Hence "click."
>"Illa est causa mea, et ad eam haeso."
Translate, please, for those of us who are Latin illiterates.
