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[Guy Harris]

>English is an excellent vehicle for describing abstract things, or things
>which cannot be easilly represented as a 16*16 bitmap. Things such as
>'Help', 'Print', 'Save', 'Exit', 'Delete', etc. What's wrong with these,

And, to forestall the obvious responses, programs can be set up to, for
example, get the text in question from, say, a file, for the benefit of
those for whom English may *not* be an excellent vehicle for describing
abstract things (which is probably a fairly large portion of the
computer-using population).