Re: Press any key to continue?

Why not just "Press RETURN to continue" ?

People do seem to have trouble with the "any key" anyway :-)

My keyboard doesn't even *have* an "Any" key.

cheers,

paulv

p.s. My keyboard also doesn't have a "Return" key.

p.p.s. :o)


I'd just want to add: when I was new using computers, I never had
trouble pressing any key - I thought is was pretty straightforward
English, and I am not a native English speaker!

However I did have trouble finding the RETURN key. I had an ENTER key,
but it took me several weeks to figure out that they were the same.

At least telling a user to press "any" key had double meaning; one may
interpret it the right or wrong way. However there is nothing in
standard English to suggest that the words Return and Enter are
somehow synonymous. One has to have good background in computer
history for this to be naturally understood.
.

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