Sorry, my bad. I’m catching up with email after fighting off a post-Gran-Canaria bug. Inverse in-box problem, if you know what I mean.
I sincerely apologize, and will endeavor not to repeat this irresponsible behavior in the future... =D On 7/21/09 3:45 PM, "Stormy Peters" <sto...@gnome.org> wrote: > 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 ) <le...@shugendo.org> 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" <pcut...@gnome.org >> <http://pcut...@gnome.org> > 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 <nisses.m...@home.se >>> <http://nisses.m...@home.se> > wrote: >>>> ? >>>> On 07/21/2009 11:31 PM, Stormy Peters wrote: >>>>> >>>>> ? >>>>> On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Andre Klapper <ak...@gmx.net >>>>> <http://ak...@gmx.net> > 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 >>>> marketing-list@gnome.org <http://marketing-list@gnome.org> >>>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> marketing-list mailing list >>> marketing-list@gnome.org <http://marketing-list@gnome.org> >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> >> -- >> marketing-list mailing list >> marketing-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list >> > >
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