A man fell into a river and was obviously struggling to stay afloat. Another man came upon him and tried to offer his assistance. “Give me your hand!” the first man said to the drowning man. No response. The drowning man continued to struggle even though he was less than an arm’s length away from his rescuer on shore. A local leader came upon the scene and instantly recognized the issue. “Take his hand!” said the local leader. The drowning man was immediately rescued.
Many places we are saying something like “Google is tracking your location” and ask for the user to click yes or no, might it be better to say instead “do you agree to submit your location to Google”?
Yaxin (on internal mailing list, quoted with permission)
