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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-i18n/attachments/20101221/36b2c4c9/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-i18n/attachments/20101221/36b2c4c9/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..74dbd0304 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-i18n/attachments/20101221/36b2c4c9/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +<div class="gmail_quote">2010/12/21 Marianne Lombard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marianne@tuxette.fr">marianne@tuxette.fr</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> +We have the same problem in french.<br> +I have used "vous" for two reasons :<br> +- it's more formal and the distribution want to look professionnal not<br> +made by 3 men in a garage<br> +- the site is not for only one person but many and "vous" is used for<br> +plural (like "ihr" in german)<br> +<br> +I hope it will help you to decide when being formal and when being not<br> +<br> +Merry Christmas<br> +<br> +Jehane<br></blockquote><div><br>I agree with Jehane and as a French user, I'd be more at ease with the formal pronoun "vous" in both the official website and the wiki (and even in the blog).<br>Apart for casual blogging or live chat, I rarely use the informal pronoun "tu" which in my opinion implies relational proximity or at least implies that you know your reader.<br> +<br>I'd prefer to use "vous" on the wiki, which doesn't exclude informal writing in French (we use it on the Mageia blog for example).<br><br>It seems that many languages have this distinction between formal and informal pronouns, but with relative uses. I think that in Spanish for example "usted" (the formal one) is less used than "vous" in French.<br> +<br>Do we need to decide something for all the teams or is the choice left to the teams, <i>i.e.</i> does it need a global policy?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Rémi<br></div></div> |