[mb-i18n] Internationalization for lists

Oliver Charles oliver.g.charles at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 17 12:37:59 UTC 2009


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Brian Schweitzer
<brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Foo, Bar & Baz
>> >
>> I can also only say this for one language. In German it is basically the
>> same. However I think you would rather expand & to und (and) there. Apart
>> from that the only thing to notice is that we never have a comma before the
>> &/und which I think Americans tend to do?
>
>
> The "serial comma"; I'd modify the above to Foo, Bar, & Baz, but really it
> depends on where and when you learned English grammar.

This is sounding good… all the big languages tend to favor the same
construct (sure, the symbols change) - so hopefully we can add
something for this in :)

-- 
    Oliver Charles / aCiD2



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