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From: ted@isgtec.uucp (Ted Richards)
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Subject: Re: Managing error strings in C
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Date: 21 Jan 91 20:28:08 GMT
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In article <		co(*15[i])871@utctra.uucp> sja@sirius.hut.fi (Sakari Jalovaara) writes:
 
> (Even that isn't enough if you want really fancy messages - how can
> you pluralize words or determine if you need "a" or "an" articles etc.
> For a multi-lingual system doing that takes separate binaries for
> different human languages or writing the message system in an
> interpreted la
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ge.  Yuck.)

No it doesn't.  All you need are se|        e m " for singular and
plural, for each type of word that could appear following "aombinatan",
etc.

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