[josm-dev] Translation

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Is it good practice to do things like
>
> String message1 = tr("No luck today.") + " " + tr("Try again.");
> String message2 = tr("Busy with other things.") + " " + tr("Try again.");
>
> instead of
>
> String message1 = tr("No luck today. Try again.");
> String message2 = tr("Busy with other things. Try again.");
>
> assuming that the former would lead to less work for translators?

No it is not a good idea, the former assumes that all languages share
English sentence structure, which they do not.