New blog post: "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Language" http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-language/
More than happy to talk about this on here with folks, too, if they want.
@benhamill Numerals are fun to translate. English only has the one singular, one plural and one rare "double" forms. Other languages have more. Polish has different plurals depending on the number itself. Japanese has different numerals depending on the shape of the things being counted, etc.
@deshipu Fascinating. You got any reference links that might include examples?
@benhamill Well, I'm Polish, so I can give you examples of that off the top of my head:
one pineapple -- jeden ananas
two pineapples -- dwa ananasy
five pineapples -- pięć ananasów
For Japanese, I guess this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals
@benhamill Sorr, for Japanese this is better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counter_word
