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Flickr. Epic Fail.
I created a flickr group called Garden Route a couple of years ago. At first I was the only one posting to it but at time of writing there are already 35 members. Very cool.
So anyway, waaaay back when I created the group, I customised the role names, so I had "locals" and "tourists" for the administrator and member names respectively.
And then along came flickr. Fail. Epic fail.
What is that? Localses? Touristses? Sounds like a bad chinese back-translation!
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2 Comments
Comment by
Michael on Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:59:00 AM
Um, did you read the instructions on the left? It says "Please be sure to use the singular version of the role name". Flickr must be trying to generate the plural according to English rules, and so is adding an "es" since the words end in "s" already.
Comment by
Charl van Niekerk on Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:48:00 PM
Instructions? There were instructions? This is 2008 and people still don't understand usability. Eish!
Anyway, now at least it works. Tourists and Locals. Cool. What they should actually have had was two separate text boxes, one for singular and another for plural. I would like to see them get automatic pluralisation right for every language in the world... There we go down the CakePHP/Rails/Django route again. Django's 'verbose_name_plural' is there for a reason. :)
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