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When defining translation strings in Laravel, always use named placeholders (like :count or :percent) instead of positional ones or manual string concatenation.
// Bad
__('You have ' . $count . ' notifications');
// Good
__('You have :count notifications', ['count' => $count]);
Different languages have varying word orders; named placeholders allow translators to move variables within the sentence without breaking the logic or requiring code changes for each locale.
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