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[111.89.228.40]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a66sm15383472pfj.153.2019.03.21.14.56.47 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:56:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0e3a074b-af58-bd14-5e93-ad0a446f0aa6@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.102.3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::42f X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:234495 Archived-At: > On Mar 22, 2019, at 6:34, Cl=C3=A9ment Pit-Claudel = wrote: >=20 > On 2019-03-21 17:21, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: >>> On Mar 22, 2019, at 6:03, Cl=C3=A9ment Pit-Claudel = wrote: >>>=20 >>> but the original author had actually writen the code to get the = English plurals right in most cases. >>=20 >> Yes, but the issue is not to have "most cases right" but rather to = have readable strings in the code. >=20 > But is that worth the loss in readability in the UI? That's a subjective issue. I think the strings are more readable now and = there are potentially less grammatical mistakes (I am not talking about = the "Number of" part you mentioned). While before it was easy to not = notice a bug in the code. I think that is a net gain. 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