Re: Treeviews
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Date: 02/25/05
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Date: 25 Feb 2005 16:33:54 -0500
In article <1109361297.008867.304890@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Richard <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote:
>>> It isn't a verb, or at least shouldn't be.
>
>> I don't have my OED with me at the moment... but perhaps someone should
>> notify the folks at Merriam-Webster and the American Heritage Dictionary
>> about this... oh, and Shakespeare, Coleridge and Carlyle, as well.
>
>I didn't know they programmed for Windows, perhaps PARC had been
>working on the Alto for longer than any realised.
Learn something new every day, aye.
>
>As used here 'dialog' is a technical term or jargon. The spelling,
>meaning and part is defined by its technical usage, not by an
>dictionary of english. For example in 'a dialog box' where it may be
>considered to be adjectival.
The original post states 'my teacher said dialogue is the correct verb
since the purpose of the "dialog" box is to converse with the end-user.';
the noun and the verb appear to be clearly differentiated. The box may be
a 'dialog box' but it is used to dialogue (or dialog) with the user.
>
>In other words the word 'dialog' can be spelt, defined and used any way
>that the developers of the UI wish.
>
>> 'dia-' prefix to indicate 'through' (as in 'diameter');
>
>You are correct, but di and dia appears to derive from the same root
>which variously mean apart (as in two things apart), across, separated,
>these all have the connotation of two things. Dialog(ue) is different
>from monologue by number.
Whence it came, Mr Plinston, and whence it wound up might just possibly
not be the same; diaphanous and diabolical seem to have little sense of
'two-ness'. The difference between dialogue and monologue seems that one
is a speaking-through and the other is a talking-alone... or are you
saying that dialogue should really be dilogue and the 'a' was just kept
for... some reason or another?
DD
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