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mrfoto

47 karma · joined September 1, 2014

Developer. Photographer. Wannabe runner. Special. http://mr.si/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mrfoto; my proof: https://keybase.io/mrfoto/sigs/iQ4dcKXvkaLOuenbCSiRVdljmXKf5fMIloGdrQshAXs ]

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mrfoto··on A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You
No idea how it's officially called, but I'm not making this up :D

http://localization-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/l10n/plu...

mrfoto··on A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You
1 imenik 2 imenika 3 imeniki 4 imeniki 5 imenikov 6 imenikov … 101 imenik 102 imenika 103 imeniki … 201 imenik … 1001 imenik … Slavic languages are f*d up :D
mrfoto··on A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen to You
Funny how Slovene seems to tick all the complications checkboxes :D We have 4 grammatical numbers (singular, dual, plural for 3 and 4, plural for 5 and above), they repeat at mod 100 (so 101 is singular, 102 dual,…), it's an inflectional language with 3 grammatical genders, sentence should take a different form depending on whether the user is male or female,…