Hi :) I was i a really bad mood so don't take that last post too seriously! "Battle for Wesnoth" has cheered me up a lot :) Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Paulo de Souza Lima <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, 14 July, 2011 12:19:09 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Magazine (Brazilian community) 2011/7/14 Tom Davies <[email protected]> > Hi :) > It is tricky to find a good word. In England "collaborators" has a hint of > revolutionary/terrorist activity & shady dodgy characters working towards > the > downfall of the country as in the French Revolution. "Workers" can hint at > "comrades" which hints at communism and is seen as bad. "Co-workers" is > possibly fairly hippy which would make it far worse than any of the above. > "Colleagues" is possibly best although it's fairly posh so although some > office > workers might understand it many people wouldn't. It also implies that you > have > no control over them as they are on the same level as you in the hierarchy > of > the organisation. "Employees" is the one that might cause the least amount > of > confusion even though the people volunteered and didn't get paid. At least > with > "Employees" it shows that you have some control so it's more accurate. > "Volunteers" implies the work is such poor quality that it's worthless, an > attitude that constantly annoys me a LOT given the amount of amazing amount > of > great work i see every day from volunteers compared to the low quality of > work > i often see from paid workers. Perhaps "Journalists that wrote the > articles"? > > I do like "Employees" & "Colleagues" because it hints at corporate > professionalism. I like "Collaborators" but many would be suspicious of > it. > "Journalists that supplied the articles" might be better in this specific > case. > Many thanks for this nice explanation =) It shows how sometimes we try to say something in a way, and we can be totally misundertood. Maybe this could be one of the causes why we are facing some troubles in our relationships these days... =) > England is a very frustrating place sometimes. > Regards from > Tom :) > > Kind regards -- Paulo de Souza Lima Técnico em Eletrônica e Administrador http://www.pasl.net.br http://almalivre.wordpress.com Curitiba - PR Linux User #432358 Ubuntu User #28729 "For people to achieve peace in their relationships, spiritual peace and the peace among people, it's necessary, earlier, to win the internal battle between virtues and defects" - Talal Husseini - Acropolitan Philosopher -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
