"TW" == Thomas Wouters
writes:
TW> The dutch plural of member ('lid') is not created by adding an TW> 's' (it's "leden".) In fact, it's generally not true that "s" TW> makes the best plurals ("en" would be better, in Dutch, though TW> that wouldn't fix it in this case.) TW> Barry, shall I just rewrite such cases to make them more TW> easily translatable? Yes, I think that's fine.
"MvL" == Martin von Loewis
writes:
MvL> Getting this right is non-trivial: a number of languages MvL> (e.g. Russian) have more than two forms that depend on MvL> number, e.g. 1, 2-4, and 5 or more; sometimes these repeat MvL> following certain formulas, e.g. 101 might require the same MvL> grammatical form as 1. [Martin goes on to explain the scary increase in gettext complexity.] <shudder> Let's just do the best we can for now. Adding all this complexity to the toolset right now worries me. I think/hope we can work around most of it by rewriting the code. I also hope that it isn't a huge or common problem. Definitely assuming that a trailing `s' makes a word plural is a quaint English tradition that we should fix in the code where possible. -Barry