RE: "Appears" vs. "will appear"

Subject: RE: "Appears" vs. "will appear"
From: "Sarah Bouchier" <Sarah -dot- Bouchier -at- exony -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 18:03:14 +0100

>I use "displays" instead of "appears." But I have no good reason why.
>Just a preference.

The problem I always have with that is that when I see a sentence such
as 'Click X. The X window displays' I mentally wait to find out what it
is that the X window displays.

Sarah Bouchier
Technical Author

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