Misspelling of the birthday attribute's label in contacts app on iOS 9 (German language)

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caraoge wrote:

Hey,

i've checked up several iOS 9 devices and all of them are affected by an misspelling in the "Contacts" app if the system language is set to "German".

The label of the attribute for the birthdays uses only small letters (In german "geburtstag"; First character is a small "g").

The correct german spelling has to be "Geburtstag" (The first character need's a capitalization; First character must be a big "G")

Does anybody can confirm this misspelling?

The field label "birthday" is lower case in English as well. In English, we wouldn't call this a spelling error as all the letters are, in fact, correct. Apple seems to use a mix of labels that have an initial capital and ones that don't. In English, I don't believe there's any particular rule that such labels have to be capitalized or not. So, while I would say that, in English, Apples choice of when to use capitals in the Contacts app is aesthetically unappealing, it's not really wrong.

Just out of curiosity, are you saying that it's never correct to write "geburtstag"?

After you asked this, I had to check it out. So I got into Bing Translator. I wrote this sentence in English and then got a translation into German.

What day is your birthday? Do you know what the word birthday means? Birthday greetings.

This allowed me a couple of different ways to write the word "birthday", both in upper and lower case. Here is what I got.

Was für ein TagistdeinGeburtstag?WissenSie, wasbedeutetdasWortGeburtstag?Geburtstagsgrüße.

So, if you see, the word is capitalized in all cases.

Very interesting. I know people who speak many other languages find it odd that, in English the first person singular pronoun is always capitalized. I wonder what the origin of always capitalizing "Birthday" would be? Where is my college linguistics professor when I really need her?

Meg St._Clair wrote:

Very interesting. I know people who speak many other languages find it odd that, in English the first person singular pronoun is always capitalized. I wonder what the origin of always capitalizing "Birthday" would be? Where is my college linguistics professor when I really need her?

😉

I believe it may be because all nouns in German are capitalized.

AJ397 wrote:

I believe it may be because all nouns in German are capitalized.

All of them? Dog? Cat? Chamber pot? Very different.

Meg St._Clair wrote:

AJ397 wrote:

I believe it may be because all nouns in German are capitalized.

All of them? Dog? Cat? Chamber pot? Very different.

Yes. If you are interested this website explains some of the differences between the two languages.

AJ397 wrote:

Meg St._Clair wrote:

AJ397 wrote:

I believe it may be because all nouns in German are capitalized.

All of them? Dog? Cat? Chamber pot? Very different.

Yes. If you are interested this website explains some of the differences between the two languages.

Thanks! Not Miss Dorian but very helpful.