On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Nelson Marques <07721@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > A small question, when talking about Fedora, we should use it as male > or female? In portuguese there is no genitive or "it", nouns always have > gender, either male or female. > > One strange example is kernel, where it is refered often as male and > other times as female 8) > > Anyway, this probably is more in the field of translation teams, but do > we have anything set for this kind of situations ? That's an interesting question Nelson... I suppose that every language has it's own way when referring to Fedora and Fedora Linux. (In Greek Fedora could be an "it" or "she", i prefer "she" :P ) In order to bypass any conflicts and misunderstandings I would suggest using universally the "it" when referring to Fedora. ~π -- Pierros Papadeas PGP key: 0x6130DBF8 http://pierros.papadeas.gr pierros@xxxxxxxxxxx liknus @ GRnet , Freenode -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
