https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27744
--- Comment #6 from Purodha Blissenbach <[email protected]> 2011-09-23 09:58:22 UTC --- Another context requiring the neuter gender surfaced in a radio interview with one of 15 members of the German Pirate Party, who were recently elected into the Berlin federal state parliament. The interviewed person is well known with his nick Plaetzchen (cookie) and confessed that he likes eating cookies, hence the name. Asked whether he wanted to be addressed "Mr. Cookie" or just "cookie" he said "das Plaetzchen" (the cookie) - "das" being the neuter article in German grammar. Standard German does not put grammatical articles in front of names usually, but many regional and local varieties do. Having articles in front of names of processes, jobs, or bots, and some nick names, is at least established jargon, dispersing into standard language use through computer magazines, and other press. Grammatical articles always convey grammatical gender. German has three of them. Analysis: We have: - natural gender: "male", "female", "undisclosed", ("other" being discussed) We need in addition: - grammatical gender: "masculine", "feminine", "neuter" - use article before name: "yes", "no" so as to be able to completely map German language use in our German L10n. Btw. the German Pirate Party is running a MediaWiki wiki. Das Plätzchen is of course using it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
