woothemes/woocommerce — Issue #162: Formal or informal speech in translations?
Author: jessor
Created: 2011-11-08 01:20:14+00:00
State: open

In German, you differentiate between addressing users with "Sie" (formal) or "Du". It's similar with other languages.

The initial translation has been done in formal speech so I left it that way in my latest commit, but I'm inclined to change it since my current project addresses users with "Du". Additionally, the german version of Wordpress uses informal speech.

What's your take on it? Maintaining two versions could be a solution, but then the user would have to rename the .po file on every update (since Wordpress just knows one language, lie de_DE, right now (afaik)).