1rst/ 3rd person
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- ukit
What do you think - is it OK to go back and forth between 1rst and 3rd person when describing your company or not?
- ********0
1st!
- ********0
probably best not to..
- ********0
skt thinks it is probably a bad idea.
i mean, why would you do it? i don't.
- monospaced0
It's never a good thing to mix it up.
- ukit0
OK, but to play devil's advocate...
Imagine you are describing your company to someone in conversation. It wouldn't sound weird at all to say "We" part of the time and the company name at other times.
If we are talking about a single person, then yes it would be weird:)
- You could say, "Here at <company name> we ..." and then transfer to the 1st person. But, consistency is best.monospaced
- juhls0
Be consistent.
- ukit0
Ex: "Microsoft posted a loss last year. We laid off 5,000 people last month."
- tcmmct0
Only if you go through 2nd person first.
- ********0
If you have to write in third person, ask someone to ghost what you write and credit it to them at the end. Ideally this would be someone with some degree of kudos in your industry but failing that, your mom will have to do.
- ********0
It's not a question of whether you think it's ok, it's a matter of fact that it's WRONG to mix it, and makes you look STUPID.
are you STUPID?
- You are the stupid one for getting so uptight about a ukit thread.********
- whose wound up?********
- NooooT ME FUCKR!!!!!!!!!********
- You are the stupid one for getting so uptight about a ukit thread.
- ukit0
OK genius...but interesting that both MSFT and Google do it. I guess they are STUPID
;)
- they dummy down for the masses;)
masses = stupidalicetheblue - I wouldn't use Google to back any marketing or creative argument. They are primarily geeks and coders, with great product(s).Amicus
- great products. If they hadn't developed a search engine that was so brilliantly simple they wouldn't have survived.Amicus
- they dummy down for the masses;)
- ********0
i think this sicarius guy is going to get on just fine here.
- Meeklo0
I think common sense will probably tell you to be consistent on whatever person you choose to write, or at least, that is meeklo's opinion on this subject.
- Meeklo0
George is getting upset!
- ukit0
"Learn about Microsoft's businesses, executives and directors, and corporate governance. Also, get our contact information, locate a sales office worldwide, see a company timeline, check out the Visitor Center, find out how to participate in the Microsoft Vendor Program, and how to do procurement."
"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
We also provide ways to access all this information without making a special trip to the Google homepage. "
I don't know...this doesn't sound so wrong to me.
- look, you asked.
if you want to mix it up and ignore the advice, then do itmonospaced - No worries...I didn't realize how common it was to do it this way before I asked...and started looking aroundukit
- I am also trying to figure out what the principle is here...what the actual rule isukit
- the actual rule is to not mix it!monospaced
- So you think these examples are wrong? I'm not so sure...ukit
- look, you asked.
- utopian0
Utopian had his way with a few strippers last evening, it was a good night I must say.
- skt already made that obvious joke. i did you know.********
- skt already made that obvious joke. i did you know.
- horton0
on a side note, i find it so horribly cheesy when designers who are obviously a one person studio refer to themselves as "we".
- we have no idea what you are talking about.moveinspace
- we are not amused********
- we are sitting in the basement watching seinfeld in our pajamas while we prepare your cost proposalhorton
- seinfeld is so good - i missed out on it completely first time round...********
- horton0
i prefer to speak from the 4th dimension.
- ********0
3rd person is cool, but you should use 1st