[Foundation-l] Elections email

[KIZU Naoko]

Oh wait,

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Garrett <agarrett at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Yann Forget <yannfo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I also received one, with
>>
>> {{GENDER:Yann|Cher|Chère|Cher/Chère}} Yann,
>>
>> Well, is this an attempt to be politically correct for BTGL? ;o)
>
> Ha, looks like we need to give better instructions to the translators
> next time :-)


I don't think this syntax goes globally. In Japanese for instance
honorific titles should follow the name, not precede. Same may happen
in other languages, I guess in Chinese too.

Even if it sounds rude, better to omit these and go straight?

My home wiki should have determined as somewhere en or meta, so I got
one English mail and only. I don't know how it went really in Japanese
... So my proposal comes from only an assumption, but this kind of
cultural and linguistically varied things is hard to generalize.

Cheers,



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