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		jarek on July 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to u... 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.

sheffield on July 13, 2011 [–]

The problem of translation should not affect the writing of the original text.

jarek on July 13, 2011 | [–]

For all you know, the "original text" is a mix of "foo bar" and lolspeak.

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