Clarifying the language on the form

  • Resolved oldmankit

    (@oldmankit)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    I have a suggestion for improving the following instructions:

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    This breaks one of the rules of clear writing: unity of pronouns. In the first sentence ‘me’ refers to the reader; in the second setence ‘you’ refers to the reader. Just to make it more fun, the whole form is preceded by “Your email is never published nor shared.”. So the reader has to flip between understanding herself first as ‘you’, and then ‘me’, and then back to ‘you’ again. Confusing.

    Is there a way I can change this on my own blog? Also, I think the plugin would be improve by changing it for all blogs that use it. Here is a humble suggestion; I’m sure it could be improved:

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  • Did you checked the plugin settings?
    What you are asking is an available configuration option.

    Thread Starter oldmankit

    (@oldmankit)

    Paulo, thanks for pointing that out! I don’t know why I assumed it would be burried in php files.

    I’ve tried to contact the the plugin authors, so they can consider changing the default text.

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