There's also "translate to English", so you can instead treat it directly as a key and use that, or treat the English text as a key and change/add to the file i

There's also "translate to English", so you can instead treat it directly as a key and use that, or treat the English text as a key and change/add to the file if it's just something like a typo. Don't recall about the second, we only had translations on one site and it's been a few years.