Who speaks Frist: Human or Computer

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
For me one of the big advantages of Ubuntu and other Gnu&Linux systems was that it puts the user back in control of their machine.  

In Windows, irrelevant pop-ups grab control and force the user to stop whatever they were doing in order to deal with tasks that Windows decided it wanted the user to do. 

I think it's important to continue showing this radically different relationship between man (or woman or child) and machine.
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Mon, 7/5/12, Dennis Baudys <thecondor at arcor.de> wrote:

From: Dennis Baudys <thecondor at arcor.de>
Subject: Re: Who speaks Frist: Human or Computer
To: goof at coppernet.zm
Cc: ubuntu-translators at lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Monday, 7 May, 2012, 14:44

Am Montag, den 07.05.2012, 15:27 +0200 schrieb goof at coppernet.zm:
> Hi Dennis
> 
> 
> So in German, you just state an action to be performed as a way of
> avoiding the use of Du or Sie?

Yes. »Du« will _never_ be used. »Sie« will be avoided wherever possible
(with very few exemptions like dialog prompts and user instructions in
manuals etc.).

> When you see a menu item "Datei öffnen" does it give a sense that the
> human expects the computer to Open the file while the computer quietly
> goes ahead and carries out the request?

Exactly.

> Is there a distinction with social 'behaviour' in this manner of
> acting such that the people expect that this is only ok if dealing
> with a computer?

Correct. People do not talk like this to each other. This is only used
in interactions with machines (however this is a high standard that not
all translators of Software besides Ubuntu follow in the wild).

Regards,

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