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.".
Or "Tom George has posted a reply to a topic you are watching"
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.
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_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