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馃摐 Improve phrasing in level 2 example #5461

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hrj opened this issue Apr 23, 2024 · 2 comments 路 Fixed by #5470
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馃摐 Improve phrasing in level 2 example #5461

hrj opened this issue Apr 23, 2024 · 2 comments 路 Fixed by #5470
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hrj commented Apr 23, 2024

In Level 2, English, I see two potential confusions:

First confusion

                   name {is} Hedy
                   age {is} 15
                   {print} name is age years old

The word is in the print statement was confusing to my kid, because it looks the same as the is in the previous two statements which have a completely different meaning in the language.

I don't know how to tackle this without being too verbose. For example, you could modify the print statement as

  {print} name happens to be age years old

Second confusion

This one is simpler:

                    favorite_animals {is} _
                    {print} I like favorite_animals

Instead of plural favourite_animals, using singular would be better: favourite_animal {is} ...

The plural makes it appear as if a list of animals is expected.

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Felienne commented Apr 23, 2024

Great catch on the second one, that indeed should be singular to avoid confusion. I think it is there by accident, because in Dutch we do have the singular form (pinging @MarleenGilsing our content developer to fix that across languages).

As for the first one I think the difference is clear because of the syntax highlighting colors, so I'd propose to leave that as is.

@Felienne Felienne changed the title 馃摐 Some grammatical confusion in Level 2 English 馃摐 Improve phrasing in level 2 example Apr 23, 2024
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If you want to pick it up yourself btw, you can also do that in Weblate!

@mergify mergify bot closed this as completed in #5470 Apr 25, 2024
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favorite_animal instead of favorite_animals

fixes #5461
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