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

"Mathias (GER, Freeciv)" <[email protected]> Sun, 6 Mar 2022 21:28:53 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.games.freeciv.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Marko,

"You, the translator" is an answer I like! But as a newcomer I better ask first, the project is after all a collaboration of many, not one. 

thx!

- - 
Mathias

> Am 06.03.2022 um 14:31 schrieb Marko Lindqvist <[email protected]>:
> 
> 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
>