# "It's been a while" text suggestion

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-been-a-while-text-suggestion/114823
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [April 12, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-been-a-while-text-suggestion/114823 "2019-04-12T02:05:17Z")
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### Author: ![seanblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-been-a-while-text-suggestion/114823/1 "2019-04-12T02:05:17Z")

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Could we get the words for the time duration spelled out? I think “y” should be “years”, “mon” should be “months”, etc. It feels weird having this as an abbreviation when the rest is a fully spelled out sentence.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-been-a-while-text-suggestion/114823/2 "2019-04-12T03:31:25Z")

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If we have the translations somewhere, then fine, otherwise I don’t want to carry a whole set of new translations for this kind of cosmetic thing.

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### Author: ![venarius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/venarius/32/133142_2.png) [@venarius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/venarius)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2019, 4:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-been-a-while-text-suggestion/114823/3 "2019-04-12T04:45:52Z")

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Will have a look at it 🙂

EDIT: Checked it and there are no translations for just “month(s)”, “year(s)”, etc… We will leave it unchanged then