On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 18:10, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> No slashes please -- try: "Insert the first disc
> into the CD or DVD
> drive." (Notice that "disc" is generic.)
Well. I just noticed that there is just one DVD and
this might possibly lead to confusion as to whether
they are several. If we can avoid that, it would be a
better version
I would hate saying "Insert the first CD or DVD into the CD or DVD
drive," since it implies, even though we all know it won't work, that
you could put a DVD into a CD drive. :-) We should probably take it as
axiomatic that the first disc in a series of one is the disc itself and
no other. Argh! I sense a metaphysical argument coming on... must...
resist... temptation...!
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Paul W. Frields, RHCE