atw: Re: Microsoft Manual of Style
- From: Howard Silcock <howard.silcock@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:02:12 +1100
My reaction was pretty much the same as Janice's: what do you mean, 'if you
can'? I suppose it must mean something like 'if your sentence becomes just
too clumsy'. But in my view including the superfluous word 'devices'
already makes it too clumsy.
On Robert's point about buying from O'Reilly, that was the first place I
looked - they sell it for $23.99. Then I tried Amazon and found it was
$9.99. Well, O'Reilly offer free upgrades and also provide both EPUB and
PDF formats. But if you buy the Kindle version you'll find it contains an
offer from O'Reilly to upgrade it for $4.99 and get those benefits thrown
in - and you're still ahead!
Howard
On 9 February 2012 15:44, Nick Shears <nshears@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No, Howard quoted pretty much the entire paragraph! Here it is with the
> extra three word at the end:
>
> "If you need to refer to more than one mouse, use mouse devices if you
> can. Otherwise, use mice."
>
> Nick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Janice Gelb
> Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2012 2:35 PM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Re: Microsoft Manual of Style
>
> On 9/02/12 10:39 PM, Howard Silcock wrote:
> > I was interested to read what they said about mouse terminology. We had
> a protracted discussion about the plural of 'mouse' on this list some years
> ago, in which I railed against the word 'mouses'. Microsoft always
> advocated using 'mouse devices', which I thought was a bit silly, but still
> better than 'mouses'. Well, now they appear to have shifted a little bit,
> as the new Manual of Style says 'use mouse devices if you can. Otherwise,
> use mice.'
>
> Thanks for the update. Sun style is to say "mouse devices" as well.
> As for the new MMoS advice - does the entry provide any further
> explanation of what "if you can" means, such as example situations?
>
> -- Janice
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