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

Hey Hubert,

thanks for your insights!

I guess, you are right about the players not paying too much attention to it. 

Personally, I think that the form of address in a document or here in a programme should be completely consistent. It should not be changed back and forth (as it is now). 

The more I think about it, the more I like the plural „Ihr“ when addressing the player in-game as the leader of the civilization. And in manuals, the tonality can be much more personal, so an „Du“ could be the way to go.

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Mathias

> Am 06.03.2022 um 14:36 schrieb Hubert Kowalewski <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi! 
> 
> A poll would be very considerate, but I'm too lazy for that, so for Polish I use more the informal option (which would roughly correspond to "du" in German) or some impersonal sentence. I guess this kind of decisions are yours to make and you can trust your native speaker's intuition. From my experience, players pay much less attention to the nuances of our decisions than we think :)
> 
> Best,
> Hubert 
> 
> niedz., 6 mar 2022, 11:18 użytkownik Mathias (GER, Freeciv) <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> napisał:
> 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? :-)
> 
> 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