On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 12:08, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

Even better, translation could allow replacing that list of messages
> with a different list of messages, perhaps longer.   That would
> make possible perfect support for a language where you need a different
> text for 2 and for numbers larger than 2.


Russian, for example, uses three different grammatical cases, which are
dependent on the last digit of the number, the system needs to be more
complicated.

Regards,
Elias