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xkcd #3140: Biology Department

Title text:

Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3140/

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, this is the same as the Czech "hodina". For extra confusion, "godina" or similar means "year" in most East and South Slavic languages.

Advanced translation software like Weblate allows categorization into zero, singular, plural-few, plural-many, unknown with if-statements for each for this reason.