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