Parler is back
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Their slogan ends with "speak free"... Shouldn't it be "speak freely"? Yes, I know Apple's famous slogan should also be Think Differently.
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Their slogan ends with "speak free"... Shouldn't it be "speak freely"? Yes, I know Apple's famous slogan should also be Think Differently.
@89th said in Parler is back:
Their slogan ends with "speak free"... Shouldn't it be "speak freely"?
Actually, the way Apple justified it was to explain that "Think Different" was not meant to mean "Think in a different fashion," but to "Think of things that are different."
It's a subtle (cough) difference, but it makes sense.
Think differently is not the same as "Think 'different'."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different
Craig Tanimoto is also credited with opting for "Think different" rather than "Think differently," which was considered but rejected by Lee Clow. Jobs insisted that he wanted "different" to be used as a noun, as in "think victory" or "think beauty". He specifically said that "think differently" wouldn't have the same meaning to him. He wanted to make it sound colloquial, like the phrase "think big".
I mean, who would ever use the term "bigly," amirite?
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@89th said in Parler is back:
Their slogan ends with "speak free"... Shouldn't it be "speak freely"?
Actually, the way Apple justified it was to explain that "Think Different" was not meant to mean "Think in a different fashion," but to "Think of things that are different."
It's a subtle (cough) difference, but it makes sense.
Think differently is not the same as "Think 'different'."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different
Craig Tanimoto is also credited with opting for "Think different" rather than "Think differently," which was considered but rejected by Lee Clow. Jobs insisted that he wanted "different" to be used as a noun, as in "think victory" or "think beauty". He specifically said that "think differently" wouldn't have the same meaning to him. He wanted to make it sound colloquial, like the phrase "think big".
I mean, who would ever use the term "bigly," amirite?
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Parler is back, again, this time on the iOS App Store.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/19/tech/apple-parler-app-store/index.html
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Parler Shuts Down Temporarily, Finds Buyer Months After Kanye West Deal Faltered
Parler, a social network that was popularized by supporters of former President Donald Trump, has been sold to a buyer that has temporarily shut it down.
Parent company Parlement Technologies Inc. said it has sold Parler to digital-media company Starboard, months after an acquisition agreement with rapper Kanye West fell apart. The platform went offline Friday while Starboard, which recently changed its name from Olympic Media, develops a plan to launch a revamped version of the site.
“It’s going to take a breath of fresh air,” said Ryan Coyne, chief executive and founder of Starboard, which owns conservative-leaning news sites such as American Wire News and BizPac Review.
He said the deal poses an opportunity for Starboard to service “unsupported online communities by building a home for them away from the ad hoc regulatory hand of platforms that hate them.”
Parlement and Starboard declined to disclose the deal’s financial terms.
Parler was founded in 2018 and pitched as a “free speech Twitter alternative.” It grew in popularity among conservatives, including far-right talk-show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Parler faced scrutiny after it was revealed that people alleged to have organized the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol had used the platform to communicate. Apple Inc. and Google-parent Alphabet Inc. removed Parler from their mobile-app stores, and Amazon.com Inc. stopped providing Parler with web-hosting services.
Parler was later allowed back on Apple and Google’s app stores after making changes to its moderation practices. It has around 250,000 monthly users, far fewer than the more than one billion monthly users that social networks Facebook and TikTok boast.
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Their slogan ends with "speak free"... Shouldn't it be "speak freely"? Yes, I know Apple's famous slogan should also be Think Differently.
@89th said in Parler is back:
Their slogan ends with "speak free"... Shouldn't it be "speak freely"? Yes, I know Apple's famous slogan should also be Think Differently.
"Speak free" could just be a riff off of Apple, but I doubt that's all there was to it.
There's a growing trend in some corners of U.S. conservative marketing that, thinking about it now, is a lot more prevalent in Australia. (Some of Cooper's new beer ads offer pretty good examples.)
Pragmatic plain-speaking is seen as a virtue whereas sounding educated in a particular way is not a good look. I'd bet part of the tone there was deliberate.
