Hello/Hi/Greetings,

First at all I would like to point out that what follows is not intended to be polemic or offensive toward others.

I'm translating common.lang.php file in trunk. I would like to discuss with you about something which I sometimes read in the English translations

Not only in the file above mentioned, I see sentences where there is a pronoun in use, without reference to the gender of the noun, which in languages like French, Spanish, Italian, is necessary.

For example in the following sentence:
This will not be displayed again. You must copy it to continue.

Ok. This WHAT?

I assume the original text was in French (if not, somebody smarter than me provided the translation):
La clé secrete ne sera plus affichée. Vous devez la copier pour continuer.

Here I understand what you are writing about and the gender of the word for translating "THIS" in the English version.

I don't know why the original noun in the Eng translation has been omitted, but I think that, since it's not a single case, in order to provide the best translation possible we should consider to avoid such "shortcuts" so to avoid misunderstandings. Also considering that English is the main referral language for all the other translations.

I think it's usually better to repeat a word in two consecutive sentences, although not that elegant, than leaving the reader with a doubt. Somebody could say that if you read the whole content of the generated web page the meaning would be clear, but from my POV I don't think many translator take the time to test in that way...

What do you think?
Tnx
Kinmen