On Saturday 26 January 2008 08:58:43 Larry Wall wrote: > That would cover most of the cases for English speakers using regular > nouns, but I wonder whether there's some kind of generalization that > would help for cases like: > > say "There was/were $o ox/oxen"
That makes me wish for a subjunctive/optative mood marker. I'm not sure why. In-language localization and internationalization hooks do seem awfully useful, but English-only pluralization rules just might not cut it. Nearly pain-free l10n and i18n *is* kind of a killer feature though. -- c
