atw: Re: To press while... or hold?
- From: "Petra Liverani" <petsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:03:30 +1100
Michael,
You're not obliged to follow an endless thread on word usage (it's
interesting though how the longest threads are usually about words and
somehow you always manage to put your 2c worth into them) - just let us sad
pedants do our thing.
Petra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Edward Granat" <megranat@xxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:29 PM
Subject: atw: Re: To press while... or hold?
> This is just getting silly guys.
>
> Surely you have something more "pressing" to do?
>
> As you can see, press is an ambiguous word, anyway, just ask the IT press
> and tell them to stop the presses before we all get depressed.
>
> Remember that 30% of any audience that you encounter in Australia will not
> have English as its/their first language, so keep it plain and simple, but
> not simplistic.
>
> Hey, here's an idea, How about picking up a phone or walking over to the
> next desk actually asking a representative member of your intended
audience
> what works best for them?
>
> (Asking the "users" for the sake of relevance and usability -- what a
scary
> concept.)
>
> Get real.
>
> Michael Granat
> Write Ideas
>
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