Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

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I replaced this on my German-language sites with "Ihr Beitrag vom Typ %type wurde gespeichert." ("Your post of type %type has been created.") It's slightly technical,

It's ugly.

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but at least it's grammatically correct.

Correct but ugly.

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Grammatical errors are not acceptable, but it's often possible to come up with more generic phrases.

While that is true it makes a website often not very nice to read. We should try to find technical solutions that allow translators to make good translations and not force them to make ugly translations.

Yes, definitely, but in the meantime, wouldn't you agree that correctness should come before prettyness? I like Cog's suggestion, too, for this particular example. The content type doesn't really add any value to the confirmation message. Hans