{"id":6786,"date":"2021-10-02T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T10:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2021-10-02T13:47:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T10:47:01","slug":"finnish-inflection-can-be-a-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2021\/10\/02\/finnish-inflection-can-be-a-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish inflection can be a pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;Monthly Supporter since December 2018&#8221; would be &#8221;Kuukausittainen tukija joulukuusta 2018 l\u00e4htien&#8221;, where &#8221;joulukuu&#8221; is the month name (and the current translation for that string doesn&#8217;t correctly account for the inflection either). Finnish has 6 different locational cases alone, so yeah, Finnish inflection can be a pain :)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only come across this title string (%{taxon} from %{place} in %{month} by %{user}) on an observation page where the date is obscured to month, whereas the (more usual case of) title for non-obscured observations has already been translated to work around the inflection. Although the latter makes for varyingly clunky Finnish, at least it&#8217;s technically not incorrect, and hence that&#8217;s how the problem is usually worked around in Finnish software translations. I can figure out a similar workaround translation for this string too (that is, take your option b).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still confused by the source string here using %{month}, which then gets turned into %{month_year}, requiring translators to pay attention to the explainer text in the reference, instead of just using %{month_year} in the source directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish has 6 different locational cases alone. Although inflection workarounds make for clunky Finnish, at least they&#8217;re technically not incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3922],"tags":[22865,1109],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aiheeton","tag-inaturalist","tag-kieli","sijainti-crowdin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}