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Re: [bug-gettext] French plural form is wrong in gettext documentation
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gettext] French plural form is wrong in gettext documentation |
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Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:44:45 +0200 |
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Davy Defaud wrote:
> Probably an American “alternative fact”. ;-)
You might have meant to be funny, but pretending that the people who
wrote this documentation lied on purpose is insulting. You should avoid
insults when writing in public.
> It’s really a pity that ngettext doesn’t have a variant with a
> signed (double) float as its last argument.
> It can be true for English, but not for every languages and not for
> French in particular.
Let's take an example:
"1,7 litres d'eau" or "1,7 litre d'eau"?
Do you have an example where the singular/plural difference would
even lead to different pronounciation?
Bruno