[Air-l] login/logon -- add 1
Laura O'Grady
l.ogrady at sympatico.ca
Wed Mar 2 09:25:56 PST 2005
At 12:00 PM 02/03/05 -0500, you wrote:
>It could be said that "login" is the act of connecting while "logon" is
>the state of being connected. Yet, I belive the 2 words are often used
>interchangeably, as in "Is Nancy logged in?"
Perhaps it is a past and present tense thing. For example, I may ask
someone in the present tense "Can I logIN using your
computer?" Alternatively someone might ask me "Have you ever logged ON to
that message board?", which would be past tense. To respond my second
example I might say "Ya I logged ON last night" if that were the case but
would say "I will logIN tomorrow to check it out" if that were instead true.
Laura
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Laura O'Grady
Ph.D. Candidate
OISE / University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
http://fcis.oise.utoronto.ca/~logrady/
logrady at oise.utoronto.ca
l.ogrady at sympatico.ca
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