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Use formal language only.
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No slang.
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Do not shorten where it's not necessary.
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%s, %d, %1$s, etc. are variables (that will be replaced with some number or word, e.g. "%s books" can be displayed as "5 books", "12 books", "white books", etc.), do not add or remove them.
%d are numbers, %s are any characters.
Parsed with PHP sprintf() http://www.php.net/sprintf- If there's only one variable in a string - you can move it anywhere along the text. (i.e. "books: %d" and "%d books" are both valid)
- If there are more than one variable in a string - you can still move them BUT PLEASE KEEP THEIR ORDER (ex. if you replace "%d oranges, %s apples" with "%s apples, %d oranges" - it will not work as %s should stay after %d)
- Generally you don't need to move any words so there shouldn't be any problem with this, unless some language construction requires it
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Please don't forget CAPITAL LETTERS, dots, commas, etc. If original string ends with dot, translated string most likely (but not always) should end with dot as well.
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