[Mageia-i18n] German home made problem

Tue Dec 21 21:07:49 CET 2010

Hi Wolfgang,
+
+In Turkish, we, too, have two 'you'. I pay attention to use offical approach
+but as Turkish team we haven't discussed this complexity. So thank you for
+reminding.
+
+Regards,
+numan
+
+
+2010/12/21 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>
+
+> In the German team meeting we stumbled over a problem which may not
+> apply to many other languages, especially not to English: the
+> difference between "you" and "you" :)
+> Meaning the way to address the readers of Mageia website, either with
+> the friend-to-friend informal "Du" (French "tu") or with the formal
+> "Sie" (French "vous").
+>
+> We looked at Debian as another community project, they are using the
+> formal adress on their German website, same with KDE and openSUSE.
+>
+> My proposal (which reached a 5:2 result in a short poll of 7 meeting
+> participants) was:
+>
+> 1. On the website which is the official presentation of the
+> organisation use the formal approach.
+> 2. In the wiki, which is the community environment, use the informal
+> approach.
+>
+> It may sound a small thing for foreigners but it is a question for
+> Germans. How does Mageia.org want to be seen from the outside. Pls
+> keep in mind that the official website will not be read only by
+> community people but also by people who do not belong to communities
+> or are not familiar with the informal way.
+>
+> WDYT?
+>
+> --
+> wobo
+>
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