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.

Fix the strings the audit named — extract, rewrite, add the missing key — with surgical edits to the source line and the locale entry; do not reformat or re-key whole translation files, and copy you did not audit stays as it is. Unrelated bugs met on the way go in the report as follow-ups. Add tests only where the repo already tests i18n; the Phase 2 key-diff scripts stay out of the commit.

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.