The man inside the hat? (Little Sister's Essay)

MangoSeed · October 20, 2023, 12:08pm

The Little Sister’s Essay exercise has a multilingual example, which, I will admit, made me very happy.

In Thai it is missing a letter here:

exercism/python/blob/95f25cf279ed2c5cb3256484cfae6d6bceff337c/exercises/concept/little-sisters-essay/.docs/introduction.md?plain=1#L24


      
          Following is a small selection of Python string methods.
          For a complete list, see the [str class][str methods] in the Python docs.
          
          
          [`<str>.title()`][str-title] parses a string and capitalizes the first "character" of each "word" found.
          In Python, this is very dependent on the [language codec][codecs] used and how the particular language represents words and characters.
          There may also be [locale][locale] rules in place for a language or character set.
          
          
          ```python
          man_in_hat_th = 'ู้ชายในหมวก'
          man_in_hat_ru = 'mужчина в шляпе'
          man_in_hat_ko = '모자를 쓴 남자'
          man_in_hat_en = 'the man in the hat.'
          
          >>> man_in_hat_th.title()
          'ผู้ชายในหมวก'
          
          >>> man_in_hat_ru.title()
          'Мужчина В Шляпе'

Further down in the file, the letter is where it should be:

github.com

exercism/python/blob/95f25cf279ed2c5cb3256484cfae6d6bceff337c/exercises/concept/little-sisters-essay/.docs/introduction.md?plain=1#L30


      
          There may also be [locale][locale] rules in place for a language or character set.
          
          
          ```python
          man_in_hat_th = 'ู้ชายในหมวก'
          man_in_hat_ru = 'mужчина в шляпе'
          man_in_hat_ko = '모자를 쓴 남자'
          man_in_hat_en = 'the man in the hat.'
          
          >>> man_in_hat_th.title()
          'ผู้ชายในหมวก'
          
          >>> man_in_hat_ru.title()
          'Мужчина В Шляпе'
          
          >>> man_in_hat_ko.title()
          '모자를 쓴 남자'
          
          >> man_in_hat_en.title()
          'The Man In The Hat.'
          ```

I’d be happy to submit a fix for this. (Or if it’s faster for you to just do it, I’m also happy to refrain)

That said… while I’m in there… :-)

Is the intended meaning The man who is inside the hat? or The man who is wearing a hat?

The English is ambiguous, but without context I would automatically assume that it means The man who is wearing a hat. The Thai phrase ผู้ชายในหมวก, however, means The man who is inside the hat. If you want to talk about a man wearing a hat, then either ผู้ชายใส่หมวก or ผู้ชายสวมหมวก would work.

iHiD · October 20, 2023, 2:49pm

Please submit a PR updating it all to make it more correct Thank you!

MangoSeed · October 20, 2023, 4:10pm

Thank you. I’ve opened a PR.

MangoSeed · October 20, 2023, 4:11pm

I was just notified that my original topic here was flagged as spam by the community. Would someone please help me understand what I did wrong?

IsaacG · October 20, 2023, 5:38pm

You did nothing wrong. Someone may have accidentally clicked the wrong link or something. I’m sure @iHiD can resolve that for you!

But … would you mind linking to the PR?

BethanyG · October 20, 2023, 6:03pm

I’ve already re-opened it and am merging it now that the CI has cleared.

github.com/exercism/python

Change Thai in string methods concept and exercise

exercism:main ← LittleMangoSeed:man-in-hat

opened 04:07PM - 20 Oct 23 UTC

LittleMangoSeed

+4 -4

The Little Sister's Essay concept and associated concept gives some example sent…ences using the phrase 'the man in the hat'. In English this is an idiomatic phrase that means the man who is wearing the hat, but could technically also translate to the man who is inside the hat. The Thai phrase ผู้ชายในหมวก translates the second meaning. I've replaced this with a phrase that better matches the intended meaning. This change was discussed in the following forum thread: https://forum.exercism.org/t/the-man-inside-the-hat-little-sisters-essay/7828/2

MangoSeed · October 20, 2023, 7:36pm

I tried linking the PR and was given an error message saying that I couldn’t link to that host.

MangoSeed · October 20, 2023, 7:37pm

Thanks, everyone, for helping me sort this out.

IsaacG · October 20, 2023, 8:01pm

@iHiD Is there a way to allow list URLs?

iHiD · October 21, 2023, 4:04pm

New users are limited to posting a certain amount of links when they join the forum. That limit was breached (legitimately) and so the post got auto-tagged as spam etc

@MangoSeed You did nothing wrong - don’t worry