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[Bartosz Kosiorek <1513311@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What about "Warning:" "Location data must be enabled to display holidays from your current location." (or something else)?
It is widely used (also in ubuntu phone/desktop).

If no, can we be more explicit, and use: "We are sorry" to translation?

@Kyle I don't want to make you upset with this papercut bug.
It is very important for me to have the best User Experience also for other languages.
For Slavic languages we cannot separate Verb from person. We must say who is "Sorry".

For Ubuntu Core applications we have similar bugs:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-weather-app/+bug/1493466

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Title:
  Very hard to translate "Sorry!" sentence

Status in Holidays Scope:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  New
Status in Ubuntu UX:
  New

Bug description:
  In Holidays scope there is sentence: "Sorry!" which is very hard to
  translate, located in ../src/query.cpp:209

  Why it is hard to translate:
  1. Ubuntu Phone is screaming to the user (by "!" sign).
  2. It is still unknown who is "sorry". Is it "I'm sorry!" (as a Ubuntu/ phone) or "We are sorry!" (as a team). For Polish language it will be two completely different translations ("Przepraszam!" - "I'm sorry!", or "Przepraszamy!" - "We are sorry!")
  3. It is very uncommon and inconsistent, that ubuntu Phone is talking with user. I cannot find other strings, where Phone is "sorry" for something. 
  4. Polish translation: "I'm sorry!" - "Przepraszam!", is very bad, because it mean that Ubuntu Phone has feelings and it is sorry for something.

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