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Subject:Re: "Wish" in tech docs From:Scott Miller <smiller -at- CORP -dot- PORTAL -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:24:07 -0700
"Choose a destination from the Destination list."
No need to talk about if they wish/want/desire to do something, they
wouldn't be reading the procedure if they didn't want to do it.
In any case, if forced at gunpoint, I would use "want," but not "wish"
or "desire." Somewhere along the way, I learned that wishes don't always
come true and as for desire, I reserve that for a sea-foam green
Stratocaster.
Also: death to click "on." Just use "click."
- Scott Miller
smiller -at- portal -dot- com
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> In my response to my previous example, some list members said they
> would not
> use the word "wish" in technical documentation. How would you
> rephrase
> this, for example?
>
> Step 1: From the Destination List, click on the Destination you
> "wish" to
> edit.
>
