About "Falsehoods programmers believe about languages"
Just a quick post about an article I just saw, the "Falsehoods programmers believe about languages".
It's pretty informative. I don't speak or understand most of the languages in the examples, but I've seen enough translators complaining about stuff like this.
The first example, specifically, is so very common in video games to "save space" or "to make things easier" to the game writer — after all, you just write one simple expression and let the variables do the rest — but it's a nightmare to deal with in many languages, including Portuguese, not only because the preposition might change but, if it's a gendered language, it gets doubly annoying and pretty hard to make it sound natural.
So, yeah, cool article.