Robert Wittams wrote:
It would of course be another option. But not a particularly good one.
It means that when you change the template, someone has to merge the
changes into all the other languages. You will almost certainly end up
with your logic out of sync in different templates.
Nightmare.
Unfortunately for some languages it's the only option.
Taking the example of pluralizations of quantities it won't work for
Russian. Words depending on their form have different alforithms of
adjustment for numbers. Typical words have 3-4 different forms for
different numbers. And I can't tell exactly how many of those forms
exist but it's like some dozens of them :-). So simple singular/plural
just won't cut it :-).
