Re: [RANT] French translation for debconf templates stucked at 90% : analysis
Helmut Wollmersdorfer <helmut.wollmersdorfer@gmx.at> wrote:
[...]
> Geben _Sie_ _Ihr_ Kennwort ein.
> [EN:~ Enter your password.]
> Thus, current WinXP (DE) uses second person in the polite form. And it
> is written with beginning capital letter, which is only usual in formal
> Letters, and would be a little bit old fashioned in email.
[...]
Not unless you do not use upper case in e-mail at all. The form of
address "Sie" (and the corresponding possessive pronoun "Ihr") is
always capitalized. (The personal pronoun "sie" is not.)
You are mixing this up with du/ihr (dein/euer) which _was_ capitalized
*only* in letters until 1996 when the "neue deutsche Rechtschreibung"
was introduced.
cu andreas
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