https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28077
--- Comment #12 from Purodha Blissenbach <bugzilla.wikime...@publi.purodha.net> 2011-03-21 10:12:31 UTC --- > Why is PLURAL needed to explain what the list does? Shouldn't that be > independent of what happens to be there now? Because " 1 file(s) copied. " is considered bad style, which is why we got PLURAL. You can of course likely find wordings that wind around the use of PLURAL in many or maybe even all languages. I bet, some are clumsy, unnecessarily long, and considered completely ridiculous, since they are not made in a way, people usually speak or think. We _are_ not talking about an absteract list of unknown content and length here. The list is shown on the same page. In my language, Colognian, people burst out in laughter, when you introduce a list of one item with a length agnostic sentence -- even though this sentence was perfect, when talking about a list which is not visible, but e.g. presented on another page. I also do not understand programmatical reasons for avoiding PLURAL. What keeps one from computing all constituents first, and once they are known, create all outputs with all data at hand in a second step? Lazyness? Imho it is usually better, to use a more structured programming style of easily identifyable separate steps. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
