Well in your case of "You don't have any music" as compared to "BeatBox can't find your music"
you£d still have the problem because in some languages even the your is possible in formal and informal forms, in German it'd be "ihre" und "deine", but yes I agree that it's a Language specific thing, thanks for all this input ;) On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Daniel Foré <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm, I'd say typically we should avoid referencing the user directly and > state things in the third person. One example is "You don't have any music" > as compared to "BeatBox can't find your music". In this case, we circumvent > formal and informal cases of "You" by putting the focus (and the "blame") > on the software. > > But yes, in general we've been talking about more extensive guidelines for > language in our apps and our docs. > > Best Regards, > Daniel Foré > > www.elementaryos.org > > On Dec 1, 2011, at 9:34 AM, Christian Dywan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Am 01.12.2011 18:17, schrieb David Gomes: > >> I said "use formal German, it's more professional", but perhaps we > >> need more specific language guidelines. > >> > >> What do you think? > > > > The topic is very language specific. To me it doesn't make sense to > define at the level of the platform. Language teams should handle it. > > > > Consider that German has syntactically analogous words for "you" and > "though" as French. But for example in email context you don't use the > formal pronouns in the same context. Now think of Japanese or Korean which > have even more fine-grained semantics. > > > > Another point is that if you actually wanted to define use of formality, > you'd have to review and replace localizations in all packages shipped. > > > > -- > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- <http://elementaryos.org/>*Fabian Thoma* | *Council Member* elementary OS [email protected] / elementaryos.org
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