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...! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
