You should check out the 'quantification' features of this Python lib called Pattern: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-en

  >>> from pattern.en import quantify
  >>> print quantify(['goose', 'goose', 'duck', 'chicken', 'chicken', 'chicken'])
  >>> print quantify('carrot', amount=1000)
  >>> print quantify({'carrot': 100, 'parrot': 20})
 
  several chickens, a pair of geese and a duck
  hundreds of carrots
  dozens of carrots and a score of parrots

This is useful functionality to include. It's practically cheating to port Python to JavaScript so it shouldn't be hard to adapt the relevant parts of the code to your project. (Well, depending on how much of it depends on the pluralization/singularization portions of Pattern.)

That's awesome. I needed that last week ironically.

Thanks for posting.

Ironically?

coincidental; unexpected.

Bloody pedants! Learn English.

Irony is not coincidence, unexpected or otherwise.

Open a dictionary and take a look...

Here I saved you the effort seeing as you're obviously incapable:

http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir

Irony isn't a concept that lends itself to a trivial definition. That particular dictionary definition you cite isn't completely wrong, but it does suffer greatly from being overly terse.

The Merriam-Webster definition is much better: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

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Furthermore, dictionary definitions aren't two way streets, not everything that fits a description therefore matches the word. Imitate, the verb, can mean to make a copy of. "Please wait while I imitate the receipt for you."

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it

This is nice if you just want a really really lightweight date humanizer with no i18n support. If you want a full-blown date/time parser/formatter/humanizer, I highly recommend moment.js

http://momentjs.com/

Thanks, I had no idea momentjs existed. It's a lot fancier, and likely less buggy ;)

  humanize.filesize(1234567890); // '1.15 Gb'

You should use a capital 'B' for byte filesizes to avoid confusion with 'b'its.

And, you might want to let the user choose between decimal or binary prefixes (rather than the 'kilo' redefinition).

1234567890 bytes is 1.23 GB in pedantic application of SI naming, as used by MacOS and Ubuntu GUIs after a certain point.

1234567890 bytes is 1.15 GiB by the IEC standard for base-2 units, which is also "1.15 GB" by the older we-hope-context-makes-things-clear tradition.

See the approach of python humanize for one way to parameterize the output:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/humanize

And see the Ubuntu Units Policy for some reasonable suggestions for when to use which kinds of units:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy

hah I clicked on it thinking it was the python package Humanize. Still, pretty cool