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"Notify me when:" ... string force buggy translations #367

Open gunchleoc opened 1 year ago

gunchleoc commented 1 year ago

I am talking about a batch of strings in the notify_ section.

I am assuming this is

Notify me when: {anyone | a follower | ...} Favorites my post

With "{anyone | a follower | ...}" being a dropdown control.

Unfortunately, this word order is impossible in my language, because I can never, ever start a sentence with a noun.

Please give us a controlling string so that we can at least swap this to:

"Notify me when: Favorites my post {anyone | a follower | ...}

I can then make translation work according to the grammar rules of my language.

sk22 commented 1 year ago

Also, “notify me when [a follower]… follows me” doesn't make any sense, so that's another problem with this design :/

Screenshot_2022-11-16-20-29-47-776-edit_org joinmastodon android

gunchleoc commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the screenshot!

I have just had an idea and can actually make that work. I recommend uploading that screenshot to all affected strings on Crowdin as context.