Re: Two-words and one-words GUI elements

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 25 Apr 2008, at 16:25, Shaun McCance wrote:

> Interesting that you and Calum, both usability guys,
> instinctively went with check and uncheck as verbs,
> while every style guide out there explicitly says
> not to do this.
>
> It makes me wonder if that particular recommendation
> is more due to pedantic language luddites than trying
> to make the language accessible or common.


My guess would be that it's to get around the fact that "check" is  
largely an Americanism[1].  (Would be interesting to try and get in  
touch with the authors of the Apple/MS style guides to hear their  
rationale in some cases, though... wonder if any of our doc writers at  
Sun have some contacts there.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

[1] Maybe I'm doing "check" a dis-service, I'm not so familiar with  
the Canadian and Antipodean vernacular :)

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