On Mar 25, 2019, at 12:35, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com,  brandelune@gmail.com,  rms@gnu.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:55:57 +0200

But since we don't yet have ngettext, we cannot yet use this
paradigm.  I thought by "from now on" you literally meant from now;
did I misunderstand?

Yes, literally.  After the patch from
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-03/msg00586.html
is pushed to master, ngettext is available to use for pluralization.

That's changing history.