Welcome message question

Question

Hi, I have to display the following message when seeing an app for the first time "Welcome to your calendar". I would like to address women & men at the same time, would "Bienvenido/a a tu calendario" be ok? Thank you for helping out

Welcome to SpanishDict. - rac1, May 17, 2017

Thank you :) - Ornaws, May 17, 2017

Answer 1

If you mean that someone is opening the app for the first time in their life, Polenta's advice would do the trick.

In order to customize all future messages according to sex, I would put a check box for male / female into the user's profile. That way you can avoid such issues forevermore.

BTW, I have read that certain things that we do in English such as writing sentences with he/she or him/her are very uncommon in Spanish. In other words, don't write él/ella at the risk of appearing clueless. Can anyone confirm this?

Most of the time you don't need "lo/la" "el/ella' because of an antecedent. The verb endings do the rest. - Daniela2041, May 17, 2017

Dani: I was referring to how in English we often write he/she with the / slash. My understanding is that él/ella with the / slash is not done in Spanish. What do you think? - DilKen, May 17, 2017

writing he/she or él/ella is not unusual in Spanish but it's a little formal, maybe more for documents. I think young people don't bother so much. - polenta1, May 17, 2017

I would put a check box for male / female into the user's profile. That way you can avoid such issues forevermore.- That would be the optimal solution :) - Ornaws, May 18, 2017

Answer 2

It could be what you have written. I have also seen lately:

Bienvenid@ a tu calendario (with @))

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Another possibility could be:

Te damos la bienvenida a tu calendario. ( this is for both men and women)