[Kopete-devel] Wrong use of plural form in kopete?

[Jason Keirstead]

On December 15, 2003 07:22 pm, Malte Starostik wrote:

> Now, assuming the use of this i18n() variant as pasted above is okay and
> only 
 the translation is wrong, it's still suboptimal when there is more
> than one person typing (how to trigger this so I can check?): IMHO it
> doesn't look exactly pretty to write "alice, bob are typing a message".
> Shouldn't that be "alice and bob are typing a message" and "alice, bob, and
> fred are typing a message" instead? Or is that Germish? Do we need a new
> i18n() variant for enumerations? :-)

Without commenting on the rest of the email, the reason you have to say
"alice, bob" are typing a message is that this can be *any* number of people, not just
 2 or 3. While you could, in theory, put "alice and bob and usera and userb are typing a
message", it adds a lot of needless text in there. Plus I am not sure how that would be
translated properly.

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