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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: plural
From:       Arnold Krille <kde () arnoldarts ! de>
Date:       2003-05-05 17:05:28
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On Monday 05 May 2003 18:38, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Arnold Krille wrote:
> > I think the programmer should decide wether to show a
> > message saying "No queue" or saying "No items in the
> > queue".
> Certainly.  But this is independent from the subject of
> allowing translators to consider 0 to be a special case.

Is it? I don't want translators to convert an empty queue because of users 
fault to a non-existant queue suggesting programmers fault ;-)

Only thing I could imagine (i am no language expert) is a language which 
distinguishes between 0, one, many (, a lot of many-cases) in the building of 
the later sentence... If this is the case, go on...

Arnold

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