Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Record banner should be in idiomatic English

2012-09-04 Thread Tomasz W . Kozłowski
Thank you for your kind word, Pete. Actually, this slogan has been reviewed by /two/ native speakers, one from the United States, and the other from the United Kingdom. I also cannot see a reason for the US to have a different banner from the rest of the world, as we are /not/ using a cultural her

Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Record banner should be in idiomatic English

2012-09-03 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Pete, if I may then give some feedback on your proposal :) For a non-native like me thís sounds quite confusing. The first is OK (although I personally feel 'join' is not activating enough), but the second 'sentence' doesn't contain a verb and that makes it very odd for me. Since we're using t

[Wiki Loves Monuments] Record banner should be in idiomatic English

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Ekman
I strongly suggest that you get some native English speakers, say from the UK, Canada, India or Australia to review the record banner. "Participate in the world's biggest photo competition and help improve Wikipedia!" It just sounds odd to an American ear, something about mixing formal words (parti