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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: plural
From:       Jacek Stolarczyk <jacek () mer ! chemia ! polsl ! gliwice ! pl>
Date:       2003-05-05 10:40:49
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On Mon, 5 May 2003, Stephan Kulow wrote:
[...]
> Guys! This doesn't make sense. The plural handling is for handling different translations
> for different values. But 0 replacements is a correct form! When will you start adding
> a special form for two replacements because 2 replacements sounds strange?
> Stop it NOW!

It is indeed a correct form  in but a language that only computer
scientist
think is a normal spoken language :-) It leads to nice phrases like:
"There are 0 customers in the queue" or "The queue is empty". The rest of
the world would probably say "There is no queue". We have to be careful,
because what we treat as an empty object in "normal" world means "no
object at all". Hence: 0 is a special case.

Regards,

Jacek Stolarczyk
-- 
jstolarz@kde.org
Polish translation team

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