<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">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@arcor.de> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Dennis Baudys <thecondor@arcor.de> Subject: Re: Who speaks Frist: Human or Computer To: goof@coppernet.zm Cc: ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Monday, 7 May, 2012, 14:44 <div class="plainMail">Am Montag, den 07.05.2012, 15:27 +0200 schrieb <a ymailto="mailto:goof@coppernet.zm" href="/mc/compose?to=goof@coppernet.zm">goof@coppernet.zm</a>: > 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, -- Dennis Baudys email: <a ymailto="mailto:thecondor@arcor.de" href="/mc/compose?to=thecondor@arcor.de">thecondor@arcor.de</a> GPG key-ID: E4A9FB08 fingerprint: CB9A 86FF 1C20 0426 3912 0276 3A78 E23F E4A9 FB08 Prüfer im deutschen Ubuntu-Übersetzer-Team launchpad: ~thecondordb </div> -----Inline Attachment Follows----- <div class="plainMail">-- ubuntu-translators mailing list <a ymailto="mailto:ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com" href="/mc/compose?to=ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators</a> </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>