https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28635
Bug #: 28635
Summary: Survey pretends to use formal/respectful German but in
fact addresses users in the most respectless forms
available.
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=52769&lang=d
e
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: i18n
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: User survey
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
The 2011 survey at
http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=52769&lang=de
shows a selector saying "Deutsch (Sie-Form)" (i.e. German (formal addressing)"
(you can select it, if it is not set so automatically)
but in fact it addresses users using the most respectless forms available.
It should use "Sie" (you, Sir/Madam) to address readers.
Even if it was not, it would have to use "Du" in writing (you as used towards
close relatives, close peers with whom you have a personal relationship,
or minors. The use towards peasants is today already close to dieing out, most
broadly replaced by a respectful "Sie")
Actually "du" is being used, which is both a form regarded as offensive (be it
a
conscious choice or owed to stupidity or lack of education) by anyone of the
age
of, say 40 or more, and a failed attempt of a useless orthography reform
authored by few unworldy academics, who pledged to allow "du" in addition to
"Du", but got only marginal groups of youth to adopt it.
So, either fix it to "Sie", or fix it to "Du" and remove the nonexisting choice
of "Deutsch (Sie-Form)" (I know, it's fallback is "Deutsch" which is inherently
using "Du", but I am afaraid, that is too technical for the average reader) or
accept to appear offensive to a majority German readers.
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