Georgi Stanojevski wrote on 03/19/07 13:21: > > Hi, I have a question for all of you. :) > > Is minus one (-1) plural or singular in your language? > > I would say "Минус едно јаболко" (singular) in Macedonian. > > On #django one guy said that he would say "minus ein äpfel" (plural) in > German.
In German you say "minus ein Apfel", which is singular. > > Those languages in django/conf/locale/ that have defined Plural-Forms > don't have -1 as a special case. Prehaps because gettext doesn't allow > negative numbers there[*]. :) > > Site from http://www.google.com/search?q=define:plural say that plural > is "more than one". They don't mention is that absolute or not. :) > > So what would you say in your language (even in english) for -1? > > I don't want to repeat and use a custom filter for pluralize and only > change value!=1 to abs(value)!=1. If -1 is plural in English the change > should go in the main trunk. :) > > * http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_node/gettext_150.html > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django I18N" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Django-I18N?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
