multiplicity

[Marc Sacks]

Wilson,

I don't think the meaning of "into" has changed over the years: one goes
into something, then one is in it.  The database is "out there" until one
logs "into" it. Of course no one would say "are you logged into?" but I
think I would generally use "into" with logged.

On the other hand, is it they of an even younger generation who now use
"login" as a single word, or just unthinking tech writers?

Marc Sacks
msacks at theworld.com


> We of an older generation would write "log in to multiple databases
> ...," as opposed to "log into ..." All will agree, I think, that one
> would write, "Are you logged in?" or even "Are you logged-in?" but
> never, "Are you logged into?"
>
> -Wilson
>
> On 7/27/07, James Harbeck <jharbeck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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>> >Do you find this among people in general, or more among people who are
>> >especially involved with computers?
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>> Now, that's a good question. Almost everyone I know is involved to a
>> fair extent with computers, and those who aren't are in the main of
>> an older generation.
>>
>> I'll have to start noting it when I hear it.
>>
>> James Harbeck.
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