Hello,
https://trac.habariproject.org/habari/browser/trunk/htdocs/system/admin/group.php?rev=3717#L20
In #3717 line 20 was changed to:
>
> <p><?php _e( 'Group' ); ?> <strong><?php echo $group->name; ?></strong> <?php
> _e( 'has' ); ?> <strong><?php echo count($members); ?></strong> <?php _ne(
> 'member', 'members', count( $members ) ); ?></p>
In my opinion whole sentences should not be split in several parts,
because it is a lot easier to translate whole sentences!
There are some problems in translating fragments, which later are
composed to whole sentences.
1. In some languages (like german) it is not possible to recognize
the grammatical case of an single word.
Wikipedia says: Cases are not very prominent in modern English,
except in its personal pronouns (a remnant of the more extensive
case system of Old English). For other pronouns, and all nouns,
adjectives, and articles, case is indicated only by word order, by
prepositions, and by the clitic -'s.
But this is different in german. If I have to translate the words
"member" or "members" ... there are more possibilities in german
than in english:
singular cases with article:
- 1st case: das Mitglied
- 2nd case: des Mitglieds (or Mitgliedes)
- 3rd case: dem Mitglied
- 4th case: das Mitglied
plural cases with article:
- 1st case: die Mitglieder
- 2nd case: der Mitglieder
- 3rd case: den Mitgliedern
- 4th case: die Mitglieder
2. If the word _t("member") is used in several different sentences
it can be that it should be translated differently in german,
depending on the context!
3. Another reason for not composing sentences from text fragments
is, that in other languages a different order of the fragments would
be needed to building grammatically correct sentences.
These are the reasons why it is important for propper translations
not to compose sentences from several text fragments!
One possible way to solve this for line 20 in group.php:
> <p><?php
> sprintf(
> _n( 'Group %1$s has %2$d member', 'Group %1$s has %2$d
> members', count( $members ) ),
> "<strong>" . $group->name . "</strong>",
> count( $members )
> );
> ?></p>
cu,
guido
PS: Please do not look at my english grammatic :-)
I am a german native speaker.
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