As a Finnish speaker, I just can't see generic localisation systems like Fluent working with agglutinative languages. For instance, consider the Polish example for Firefox Account from Fluent's front page:
In Finnish, this would be called Firefox-tili. Tili means account and belongs to the Kotus type 5 words, which specifies how the word is inflected with various suffixes. Fluent doesn't support agglutination, so you'd have to specify every form of the word separately:
-sync-brand-name = {$case ->
[nominative] Firefox-tili
[partitive] Firefox-tiliä
... 10ish more inflections
[nominative first person] Firefox-tilini
[partitive first person] Firefox-tiliäni
... 10ish more inflections
... the above inflections but for 2nd and 3rd persons
[nominative first person plural] Firefox-tilimme
[partitive first person plural] Firefox-tiliämme
... 10ish more inflections
... the above inflections but for 2nd and 3rd persons plural
[nominative first person questioning] Firefox-tilinikö
[no idea what this is even called] Firefox-tilittömänäkin
[no idea what this is even called 2] Firefox-tililleensäkään
... lots more
}
Ideally, you'd only specify that Firefox-tili is a type 5 word and the system generates all of that boilerplate.
all of these are different ways to say “firefox account”?
Basically yes. The idea is that each suffix represents something that's typically a separate word in English, and you can mix and match suffixes just as you'd mix words.
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cgtjsiwy@programming.dev · 11 pts · 2y
As a Finnish speaker, I just can't see generic localisation systems like Fluent working with agglutinative languages. For instance, consider the Polish example for Firefox Account from Fluent's front page:
In Finnish, this would be called Firefox-tili. Tili means account and belongs to the Kotus type 5 words, which specifies how the word is inflected with various suffixes. Fluent doesn't support agglutination, so you'd have to specify every form of the word separately:
Ideally, you'd only specify that Firefox-tili is a type 5 word and the system generates all of that boilerplate.
morrowind@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
I don't know finnish, all of these are different ways to say "firefox account"? That's wild
cgtjsiwy@programming.dev · 11 pts · 2y
Basically yes. The idea is that each suffix represents something that's typically a separate word in English, and you can mix and match suffixes just as you'd mix words.