Il giorno sab, 17/04/2010 alle 02.10 -0400, Marian Holovatskyy ha scritto: > > > On 16 April 2010 18:54, 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 ? > > nelson. In Italian, Fedora is "una distribuzione Linux". That is, female. But we don't say "she" because it's a thing, it would be not appropriate, we would say "that" (essa), but in fact we simply omit the pronoun, for example, translating "you remember the name of that Linux distribution... It was so cool..." would be: "Ti ricordi il nome di quella distribuzione Linux... Era fantastica..." [1] You would end up talking funny if you say "essa" here. In Portugues it would be something similar I guess because similar are the rules for the pronoun so something like: "Você se lembra o nome da distribuição Linux... era tão legal..." Cheers, Mario [1] actually, cool would be translated is so different ways, but you would end up talking funny anyway :) -- pgp key: http://subkeys.pgp.net/ Proud GNU Classpath developer: http://www.classpath.org/ Read About us at: http://planet.classpath.org OpenJDK: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/caciocavallo/ Please, support open standards: http://endsoftpatents.org/ -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
