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Change to the wording - Samoan words #47

Closed Ngapera closed 3 years ago

Ngapera commented 3 years ago

Jackie has suggested changes to the following copy.

Data empowers us. “Fa’amaumauga e mafai ai ona faamalosia ai o tatou tagata Pasefika.” - Jackie suggested that this heading might work better in quotation marks, and she would like to add the apostrophes back please.

robisaacnz commented 3 years ago

Unattributed quotes (aka "scare quotes") are prohibited by our style guide (and good taste!). We need either someone to quote as saying this, or we need to emphasise this text without including it in quote marks.

Ngapera commented 3 years ago

Unattributed quotes (aka "scare quotes") are prohibited by our style guide (and good taste!). We need either someone to quote as saying this, or we need to emphasise this text without including it in quote marks.

Ka pai, I will let her know. TIL "scare quotes" :)

natdudley commented 3 years ago

@robisaacnz would an em dash work? I'm not sure on the grammar rules around that. So,

Data empowers us — Fa’amaumauga e mafai ai ona faamalosia ai o tatou tagata Pasefika.

robisaacnz commented 3 years ago

An em dash indicates a continuation of the same sentence, so it's appropriate. A colon is more commonly used to indicate a successive clause of the same sentence where the subject has not changed, so,

Data empowers us: Fa’amaumauga e mafai ai ona faamalosia ai o tatou tagata Pasefika.

But I'm happy with either of these as an alternative to scare quotes.

natdudley commented 3 years ago

Cool, I'll go with the latter.