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Date:   Tue, 18 May 2021 10:27:15 +0200
From:   Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Such=E1nek?= <msuchanek@suse.de>
To:     Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc:     Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup: split "extensions found" messages into singular
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On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 02:29:59AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:19:17AM -0600, Alex Henrie wrote:
> 
> > It's easier to translate this way.
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> I don't know about "easier to translate", since there are twice as many
> strings now. But certainly what the user sees will be more grammatically
> correct. :)

Note that some languages may still have dual (that is 2 extensions is
different from both 1 and 3 and more extensions), and so on for 3 and 4,
and in some languages 21 (and 31 but not necessarily 11) extensions may
be singular again.

Kind of reminds me of
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/

Thanks

Michal