i18n(de): rephrase gender notice in i18n-guide

[trueberryless]

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The German translation of Astro docs only uses the male form for gendering because German gender rules make sentence structures often unreadable and would ruin the flow of documentation.

We therefore decided (back when we translated the tutorial I think) that we will add a gender notice somewhere, but haven't really discussed where to add it.

This PR updates the previous statement of our i18n guide¹ to be a more profound gender statement, which translates to English as:

For the sake of readability, this documentation employs gender-neutral phrasing. Any personal titles or pronouns used are intended to include all genders, identities, and backgrounds equally. Our community thrives on diversity — we deeply value ensuring that everyone feels welcome, respected, and included here.

Footnotes

1. The previous statement translated to English reads:

   We have decided against using gender-neutral language in our translations because it makes the texts harder to read, and there are currently no guidelines from Duden (official German dictionary) on the matter. We prefer to avoid gender-specific phrasing in our translations and word the texts in such a way that no one feels excluded.

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[randomguy-2650]

I have left a note on the original PR stating something about gendering as it is a slightly different case compared to the rabbit hole we went into during the big tutorial PR.

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By the way, we could probably swap out some “generic masculine” terms for gender‐neutral ones, let me give you some examples to clarify what I mean:

• Lehrer -> Lehrkraft
• But not: Student -> Studierende (because nobody uses this, it sounds utterly weird)

[trueberryless]

By the way, we could probably swap out some “generic masculine” terms for gender‐neutral ones, let me give you some examples to clarify what I mean:

* Lehrer -> Lehrkraft

* But not: Student -> Studierende (because nobody uses this, it sounds utterly weird)

Yes, but let's do that in another PR and not block this one 👍

[randomguy-2650]

Eh… I’m not quite sure if it makes sense to merge this though because it deviates quite a bit from the original because of this language-specific note. Also, many sites that use the generic masculine don’t have a note at all.

So maybe more feedback from others if possible for this?

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[trueberryless]

Thanks to a wonderful suggestion by @delucis on Discord, I reverted all the previous changes and added the gender notice in our i18n-guide where a similar (but more "internal") note existed before. We can use that ideally as a perfect place for this statement 👍

I think this is a better solution, wdyt @randomguy-2650?

[delucis]

I wonder if it would be good to still preserve the intent of this sentence in there somewhere:

Wir vermeiden lieber geschlechtsspezifische Formulierungen in unseren Übersetzungen und formulieren die Texte so, dass niemand sich ausgeschlossen fühlen muss.

For example, something like

Womöglich vermeiden wir geschlechtsspezifische Formulierungen in unseren Übersetzungen und formulieren die Texte so, dass niemand sich ausgeschlossen fühlen muss. Wo solche Formulierungen nicht möglich sind, wird auf die gleichzeitige Verwendung mehrgeschlechtlicher Sprachformen verzichtet aus Gründen der besseren Lesbarkeit. etc…

Just to underline that the aim is still to use neutral language as much as possible but acknowledge it’s not always possible.

[trueberryless]

I updated the phrasing in 08f541f (this PR). Wdyt?