audit-i18n — Natural, Human-Sounding Translations

Degree of freedom: MIXED — Quality judgment and rewrite [HIGH freedom]; Phase 2 key-diff and Phase 4 locale walk [LOW freedom — run exactly].

Audit-and-fix exception. Find bad copy, then fix it. Not present-then-stop.

Translations that read like machine output erode user trust — especially in the user's own language. Find every unnatural, jargon-heavy, or technically worded string and rewrite it to sound like a real person in that locale.

The goal: every string should sound like it was written by a native speaker who understands the user, not translated from English by a developer.

Core principles for good copy

These apply to every string in every locale: