[Air-l] login/logon -- add 1

[Dominic Pinto]

 --- Lauren Squires <squires at virginia.edu> wrote: 
> I feel like the hunch about "login" being an act and
> 
> "logon" being a state is getting at something...
<snip>
> 
> ???
> Lauren
> 
> PS - Could this be anything like the (describing an
> IRL 
> situation) "waiting in line" vs. "waiting on line" 
> variation? English prepositions confused about
> spatial 
> metaphors?
> 
At the risk of assisting in a diversion, English
variations include waiting in a queue - as in
documents waiting in a print queue. My computer may be
on line, but probably not in line or in a line.

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