Spelling Conventions and Recurring Terms

As a general rule we will use American English. For a list of common differences between US- and UK-English have a look here!

Spelling Conventions

Word/Expression	yunity spelling convention description
yunity	always lowercase In German: Never followed by a hyphen! (So it's 'yunity Team', 'yunity Projekt' and 'yunity Wiki' as opposed to the grammatically correct 'foodsharing-Team', foodsharing-Projekt and 'foodsharing-Wiki')
foodsharing	lowercase except when at the beginning of a sentence
WuppDays	two capital letters, no space
Open WuppDays	three capital letters, one space

Every new decision concerning our internal yunity-speak will be included here as soon as possible!

Translating from English to other languages: Recurring Terms and their Spelling

Multiple expressions are supposed to be used synonymously.

English	German	French	Spanish
sharing (noun)	das Teilen	le partage	el arte de compartir la acción de compartir
saving (noun)	das Retten	la récupération	el salvamento (but sounds really horrible, try to use the verb instead!)
open source	Open Source	open source	código abierto
application	App Anwendung	app, application	app, applicación
open source app	Open-Source-App	une logiciel libre	una app de libre acceso
unifying movement	vereinende Bewegung	mouvement unifiant	movimiento unificador

If you're a translator and create new recurring terms in your language, please include them here! We'll be sure to do so ourselves as well!

Gender-neutral language

Currently no decisions regarding the specific form of gender-neutral language have been made, only the fact that we'd like to formulate as fair as possible is a given.

The following thus is to be understood as documentation only and not as prescription!

We are open to more specific suggestions from linguistic nerds

English

German

French

No real problems here

(coming from a German

perspective...^^)

A mix of capitalization of options (einE/jedeR),

Binnen-I (NutzerInnen) and mentioning both forms

(jeden und jede) to have some kind of variety but still

keep readability.

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Grammar conventions

As we have come across helpful tips pinpointing what native english speakers do without thinking, here we can list them up for everyone to review and adopt to make our website appearance feel smooth even for the native eye.

the order that adjectives are lined up in front of a noun is undisclosed but crucial to the native speakers ear: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose noun

Examples:

1. "lovely little old rectangular green french silver whettling knife"
2. Unexample NOT to use: "green great dragon", since the native speaer may feel uncomfortable hearing the colour-defining adjective before the size-definition.