Link: Linguistic blindness illustrated

July 24, 2006

If you can answer this, you are not paying attention is a nice illustration and discussion of the importance of thinking about what you're writing in prompts and questions in software. Also interesting is a followup entry on why everyone is so against using 'yes' and 'no' for answers in dialog boxes.

(From Daring Fireball.)

Written on 24 July 2006.
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