That kind of misses the point of the experiment that Andre pointed to where "you should" made a big difference.
http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html Stormy On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) <[email protected]> wrote: > One minor tweak, perhaps. > > I’m not so happy with the “You should”, myself, on two counts: > > “Donate! Become a Friend of GNOME and help provide a free desktop for *all > *users!” > > gets rid of two unnecessary words, and “should” for me has a connotation of > obligation, and invites me to think “Well, I know I *should*, but...” They > know they’re “you”; don’t tell ‘em what they *should* do—they don’t do > what they should do all day long, and so do I—tell ‘em what to *do*. > > (Also, I like a stress—italicized?--on the word “all”. There’s an important > subtext in there, in terms of localization, of accessibility, etc. Maybe > we’ll even get that gender-neutral-ish equal-opportunity-ish thing working > sometime. Shoot me now.) > > > > > > On 7/21/09 3:20 PM, "Paul Cutler" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Correct grammar should be: > > "Donate! You should become a Friend of GNOME and help provide a free > desktop for all users." > > Sometimes it's the little things. :) > > Paul > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 07/21/2009 11:31 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, den 21.07.2009, 14:47 -0600 schrieb Stormy Peters: > > > "Donate to help support the GNOME Foundation's goal to provide a free > > desktop for all users - become a Friend of GNOME" > > or > > "Donate - help support the GNOME Foundation's goal to provide a free > > desktop for all users - become a Friend of GNOME" > > or it could go in the title: > > "Donate - Become a Friend of GNOME!" > > > Pardon that I don't remember who blogged/twittered/<bla>ed about > http://dustincurtis.com/you_should_follow_me_on_twitter.html in the last > days so I can't give credits. > > Proposal: > "Donate! - You should become a Friend of GNOME and help providing a free > desktop for all users." > > > > Let's try it! > > > > Heh, sounds brave and crazy. Done! > - Andreas > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > > > ------------------------------ > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > >
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