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Agreed! But I suspect several of these decisions are not intentionally made and are "...meh, whatever".

• angiolillo 11mo ago
  Fair enough, and honestly I agree with you that supporting the n==1 case is the bare minimum of care I'd expect from an application developer. Though if you support languages other than English even the decision to simplify pluralization logic to n==1 seems like a form of "...meh, whatever" given various pluralization rules: https://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/plural-rules https://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/plural-rules
  • ctxc 11mo ago
    The best approach is to probably separate the number out I guess. Files deleted: {0 or 1 or 1,000,000}
    • angiolillo 11mo ago
      That's certainly the approach our translation team prefers! Assembling a grammatically-correct statement from multiple discrete tokens is hard in languages with grammatical gender, complex pluralization rules, word ordering, etc. And there's not much benefit of doing it halfway right.