Re: Noh, this doesn't work at all...

Zeborah <zeborah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina Hall <Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Zeborah <zeborah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina Hall <Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Zeborah <zeborah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tina Hall <Tina_Hall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Helen Hall <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For some reason, the adult beginners (who have never used a
mouse before), seem to think that in order to move their hand
away from them they need to watch it move and so they aren't
watching as the mouse pointer wanders randomly across the
screen.

(Why does it matter that the pointer wanders across the screen,
though?

If you're trying to click on a link

This not about trying to click on a link. It is about letting go
of the mouse ("in order to move their hand away from them").

Thus the second question that you snipped; why let go in the first
place?

They're not letting go.

This is _about_ letting go.

Read up what you keep ignoring: "_move their hand away from them_".
Moving a hand away from a mouse means letting go.

If they were moving their hand away from the mouse, Helen would have
said

That's just typical. Rather than admitting a mistake, you try to
twist things and just go on discussing.

First you claim they mean clicking, and ignore that there's no
mention of it. In fact snip what I said about it to suit your
purpose.

Now you claim it says someting other than it does, rather than
admitting to have made a mistake and say it may have been a
misunderstanding, you insist I made a mistake. But I'm refering
strictly to what the words say, while you keep ignoring them and
what I say.

That's no basis for a conversation. If I want to talk to a wall,
I've got enough of them here, without the need to type and read.

so the phrase is synonymous with "move their hand away from
themselves".

That's not what it says, and the only interpretation that makes
sense with 'them' is meaning the mice the plural beginners use.

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