Re: Which "form of address" pronoun should be used in Freeciv in German?

On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 at 12:18, Mathias (GER, Freeciv)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There are three possibilities:
>
> Informal 2nd person singular „du“ or
> Formal 2nd person singular „Sie“ or
> Formal 2nd person plural „Ihr"?
>
> In the current Freeciv translations, it is a mixture of „du“ and „Sie“.
>
> Civ 6 uses „Ihr“.
>
> Who decides stuff like that? The (German speaking) freeciv users? Shall we make a poll? :-)

 You, the translator? As we might make Alina the admin who handles
your translation updates, she might have something to say too.

>
> Examples:
>
> EN original:
> * You pay no %s upkeep for your units.
>
>
> DE „Sie"
> • Sie zahlen keinen %s-Unterhalt für Ihre Einheiten.
>
>
> DE „du"
> • Du zahlst keinen %s-Unterhalt für deine Einheiten.
>
>
> DE „Ihr"
> • Ihr zahlt keinen %s-Unterhalt für Eure Einheiten.
>
>
> - -
> Mathias


 I'm traveling today, trying to write emails with a phone over
whatever connections.


 - ML