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