Comment by latexr
2 days ago
> This reads silly for another reason: websites don't... introduce things. Website owners might.
That feels overly pedantic, and is incorrect. “Introduce” means “bring a subject to the attention of (someone) for the first time”. It doesn’t need to be done by a person.
It’s perfectly acceptable to say, for example, “The Shining introduced me to the horror movie genre”. That doesn’t leave room for doubt that you mean The Shining was your first horror movie. It would’ve been silly to say “Stanley Kubrick introduced me to the horror movie genre” just because you watched one of his movies.
Is that not an idiom? https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/introduce+me+to
The keyword may be the same, but it's really not the same intended meaning.
> It doesn’t need to be done by a person.
Not entirely what I was trying to suggest, but that it's usually an organization, a project, or a specific person who introduces things, and that I'm not sure how to pin this semantic category down. In the example sentence, "RedHat" or "the OpenShift project" would have been much better choices I'd say for example. Consider:
> The OpenShift project introduces the Developer Center, a new section to the OpenShift website dedicated to reference materials and other resources.