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Am 10.08.2012 00:50, schrieb Patrick Dickey: > This isn't related to the username issue, per se (except maybe in > a general way). Do you have a name for "John Q. Public" in German? > In English, John Q. or John Q. Public is generally meant for "the > common man" or the public in general. Wikipedia suggests a few > names, but which one is generally used? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Q._Public In Germany we would use "Otto Normalverbraucher" [1] for the typical ordinary German person. He is used for statistical and marketing research purposes... > How it's generally related to this, is since Ubuntu (and the > manual) are geared for the ordinary user, maybe that would be a > better username instead of the "John Doe", "Erika Mustermann" > options. ... but "Erika Mustermann" is used as a place holder name for example on the German identity card [2] or on forms [3]. I think Ubuntu and our manual is made for _all_ people and not only for the ordinary. So for the German version of our manual "Erika Mustermann" fits better as "Otto Normalverbraucher". I can't say what the best choice would be for the English version, this have to decide the native speakers. Then I would recommend to mention this name in the style guide. Greetings, Carsten [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Normalverbraucher [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_identity_card [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_%28document%29 - -- Hier ist mein öffentlicher GPG-Schlüssel: http://daswaldhorn.piranho.de/gpg/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlAlNKsACgkQ6SlDN6cxaI5uowCeIXEehsw09uh9nw0DrOuDURqA ijwAn2Tzo5IPWiYEbqg70dOHRwMdhhVb =m2Xk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
