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Grammar in automatic emails

Has anyone else winced at the grammar contained in the automatically generated emails?

Like this little gem: “[username] approve you to be her friend.”

Or maybe: “You can accept the invitation by visit [URL]”

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Answer #1

:) At some point, we need a GUI for these things a few times, I’ve not specified the exact verbiage…and yes, 3 of the 4 people who push code, so to speak, are from one country, and the other person who helps code is from yet another country, and neither of those two places is the US :)

We’ll try to improve it shorter term, good catch, mikeh.

Answer #2

I believe that would be because English is not the programmer’s first language. Some cultural allowances are expected, I believe.

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