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I wonder if the grammar mistakes are beneficial for adoption or if it drives people away (no, really). The "who is already use" line on the homepage reminds me of "All your base are belong to us." I could see it appealing to a certain audience of programmers, IT support, and the like -- particularly those with a background in gaming.

Has anyone done any A/B testing on something like this?

[Edited: I'm _really_, _really_ not trying to be the grammar police here. I'm in no position to do so, and my grammar is faaar from perfect. I'm just wondering about the actual impacts (or lack thereof).]



As has been mentioned, you see this a lot in projects that are started by a small core group of programmers that have english as a second (or additional) language but are attemtping to develop to an international audience. It's open source though, so us native speakers are more than capable of helping them out.


Judging from the grammatical errors and the core dev's last names, they sound eastern european (ukraine).


Judging by the downvotes and this reply I think I made a mistake in making whether or not it's meant to be humorous the focus of my question. It seems like it should be intuitive that grammar mistakes == bad conversion, but I'd love to see numbers on it since I really doubt it's hurting them much, if at all, in this case. C'est la vie.


Most core dev of Gitlab are based on the Ukraine. But it is quickly getting more international on https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/graphs/contributors (I'm @dosire, the founder of Gitlab.com)




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