pluralization not complete [rt.cpan.org #125930]

[rabbiveesh]

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#125930 (status was 'open')

Requestors:

• ether@cpan.org

From ether@cpan.org on 2018-07-25 16:39:52
:

I have a table called "device_criteria". Even with naming => { ALL => 'v8', force_ascii => 1 } in my config file, I end up with a source called DeviceCriteria, not DeviceCriterion.

this looks to be the root problem:

perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase -wle'print Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S("device_criteria");'
-> device_criteria

I guess some splitting into words is required first?

From ilmari+cpan@ilmari.org on 2018-07-26 10:16:47
:

"Karen Etheridge via RT" <bug-DBIx-Class-Schema-Loader@rt.cpan.org>
writes:

> I have a table called "device_criteria". Even with naming => { ALL => 'v8', force_ascii => 1 }
> in my config file, I end up with a source called DeviceCriteria, not DeviceCriterion.
>
> this looks to be the root problem:
>
> perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase -wle'print Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S("device_criteria");'
> -> device_criteria
>
> I guess some splitting into words is required first?

That wouldn't help, Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase doesn't handle "criteria" on its own either.

$ perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase -wle'print Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S("criteria");'
criteria

The underlying problem seems to be that Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number
thinks 'criteria' is already singular:

$ perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect::Number=number -E 'say number "criteria"'
s

I think this all stems from the fact hat Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number
abuses Lingua::EN::Inflect::PL() to convert to _singular_, which is
documented as "undefined (and unlikely to be correct)", the comment in
to_S() even says "I don't know why this works, but it seems to."

Lingua::EN::Inflect does know to pluralise "criterion" to "criteria",
but the usual (accidental?) behaviour of PL() singularising already-plural
words doesn't seem to apply to it (or other "ion" -> "a" words like "aphelion").

Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase does have a bunch of special cases, I guess this
could be added there.

-ilmari

From ether@cpan.org on 2018-07-26 15:22:31
:

Is this being rejected because (seemingly) Lingua::* doesn't know how to handle this word?

On 2018-07-26 03:16:47, ilmari wrote:

> > I guess some splitting into words is required first?
> 
> That wouldn't help, Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase doesn't handle
> "criteria" on its own either.

This works (and indeed is what I'm doing elsewhere in the codebase:

    use Lingua::EN::Inflexion 'noun';
    my $table_name = 'device_criteria';
    my @words = split('_', $table_name);
    $words[-1] = noun($words[-1])->singular;
    my $source = camelize(join('_', @words));

perl -MLingua::EN::Inflexion=noun -wle'print noun("criteria")->singular'
--> criterion