Re: Portuguese: don't you need a macro here?

Posted by Jose - russianforfree.com on Aug 19, 2011; 8:47am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Portuguese-don-t-you-need-a-macro-here-tp6699354p6702387.html

Hugo <Nabble> wrote

Jose - russianforfree.com wrote

Here we have the same issue again.
Unless we come up with some alternative message, we should carry on with the masculine option

<translation><from>Dear user,</from><to>Prezado usuario</to></translation>

No, here the word "usuário" is masculine, so doesn't matter if the user is a man or woman. The sentence will not vary in this case.

At least in Spanish we would have usuario (masculine) and usuaria (feminine), so theoretically a woman wouldn't feel represented when addressing her as "prezado usuario". But never mind, thinking of an alternative wouldn't make it look much better anyway.