Amen to that. No more "Sie" please! Add "du"!! It's like getting translations to English that are using "Thee" and "Thine." Need the option of what type of German (Formal or Informal). Maybe for English we could have Amish, British, and American English. Click "Amish" to get the "thee" back in there.
On Oct 14, 8:09 pm, Bonn wrote: > As someone who uses Google Translate to translate English language e- > mails into German for sending to my deceased wife's German only > speaking relatives in Germany, I would like to remind Google that > Google Translate should provide a way to translate the English "you" > into German using the informal German "du", "dich", "dir" and not > simply translating it into the formal German "Sie", etc. It should > not be difficult to allow the user to select the informal option. > > At present, if you write a message in German using the informal "du", > Google Translate will translate the du into English as "you". > However, if you take that Google English translation and have Google > Translate re-translate it back into German, Google Translate will > translate the English "you" as the formal "Sie" and not the informal > "du". -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
