Email English construction

Is there any way to get a correctly constructed sentence in a email notifications? I am referring to this: "A reply has been posted to a topic you are watching by TomGeorge.". To make logical sense, it should be "A reply by TomGeorge has been posted to a topic you are watching.".

Best regards,
Paul

Or "Tom George has posted a reply to a topic you are watching" :slight_smile:

But maybe the original means that the Thread was started by Tom George? I can (just about) understand why someone might want an email to notify him/her about a new reply. But it seems more important to say which Thread the reply has been added to rather than to say who has added it.

...R

My take on it is a lazy programmer just appending one string on the end of another rather than having three strings to have to assemble into one. Been there and done that!

Paul

Robin2:
But maybe the original means that the Thread was started by Tom George?

Nope, it's the username of the person who posted the reply.

Paul_KD7HB:
My take on it is a lazy programmer just appending one string on the end of another rather than having three strings to have to assemble into one. Been there and done that!

I know this reply is a bit late.

But this might be a literal translation from another language (Italian) and hence make perfect sense to the programmer whose native language is not English.

I guess proofreading by a native English speaking person (who knows more than sms speak) would have prevented this :wink: