diff --git a/apprise/AppriseLocale.py b/apprise/AppriseLocale.py
index 3c2dd10564..851547ca66 100644
--- a/apprise/AppriseLocale.py
+++ b/apprise/AppriseLocale.py
@@ -38,9 +38,6 @@
 from os.path import abspath
 from .logger import logger
 
-# Define our translation domain
-DOMAIN = 'apprise'
-LOCALE_DIR = abspath(join(dirname(__file__), 'i18n'))
 
 # This gets toggled to True if we succeed
 GETTEXT_LOADED = False
@@ -65,6 +62,12 @@ class AppriseLocale:
 
     """
 
+    # Define our translation domain
+    _domain = 'apprise'
+
+    # The path to our translations
+    _locale_dir = abspath(join(dirname(__file__), 'i18n'))
+
     # The function to assign `_` by default
     _fn = 'gettext'
 
@@ -112,14 +115,16 @@ def add(self, lang):
             # Load our gettext object and install our language
             try:
                 self._gtobjs[lang] = gettext.translation(
-                    DOMAIN, localedir=LOCALE_DIR, languages=[lang])
+                    self._domain, localedir=self._locale_dir, languages=[lang],
+                    fallback=False)
 
                 # The non-intrusive method of applying the gettext change to
                 # the global namespace only
                 self.__fn_map = getattr(self._gtobjs[lang], self._fn)
 
-            except IOError:
+            except IOError as e:
                 # This occurs if we can't access/load our translations
+                logger.debug('IOError: %s' % str(e))
                 return False
 
             logger.trace('Loaded language %s', lang)