QUOTE(Ancestor @ Feb 18 2007, 15:44) [snapback]26015[/snapback]
My point is that it's a pretty common situation. You can see it in Firefox's options window as well in the Privacy tab. Have you ever seen "minutes" dynamically changing to "minute" when you type "1" in the textbox in any application? I haven't.
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It's grammatically incorrect but it's totally acceptable and understandable for the user
Of course, this is true but if we can use an alternative, why not
In this case,
if obviously you like this proposal (since this is only a proposal!), you could replace the two entities
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<!ENTITY checkForUpdatesBefore.label "Check feeds for updates every">
<!ENTITY checkForUpdatesAfter.label "minutes">
with only one entity like:
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<!ENTITY checkForUpdates.label "Period of time after which to check for updates (in minutes): (1 or 10 or 100!)
(Please forgive my bad tech and not tech English)Well, probably there are better and more tech/appropriate words, but IMHO this could be a good 'alternative'!
BTW, there is a different situation inherent to the alert of the new entries
: as you can see in the image there is a 'problem' with the plural
(nuovi elementi) although there is only a new entry (1 nuovo elemento)...
Of course, in this case a probable compromise could be something like "
Nuovi elementi in %S feed: (number of new entries)", and in Italian language this would be correct since English invariable words don't have the 's' of the plural, and therefore the word 'feed' in Italian language is both singular and plural.
But I guess not all languages have the same 'rule', and above all in the English language you can't apply this!
So, in this case, could you please create another variable for the plural?
Singular:
New entries in %S feeds in % Feed: (number of new entries)Plural:
New entries in %S feeds: (number of new entries)Well, is not a really wonderful solution, but IMHO also this one could be a good 'alternative'!
Thanks in advance for your patience and for your understanding.