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by sheffield 5458 days ago
But in English it is. It's acceptable to develop faster for certain (popular) languages.
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Absolutely, but I would be surprised if they didn't have some code in the production version right now to support doubtlessly upcoming translated versions - perhaps not a full blown declension engine, but it seems unlikely they'd go English only at the start and retrofit everything later. The code might not be optimized to just let them do a simple find/replace for English.
The problem of translation should not affect the writing of the original text.
For all you know, the "original text" is a mix of "foo bar" and lolspeak.