Nice idea, Tut, but how do you want to deal with "der, die, das" and the other articles in German? Or the different singular/plural forms? The idea behind placeholders is that you write something only once and then it is used a billion times... if you have to check every billion variation, the placeholder doesn't make sense.

Nigel Powers: "There are only two things I can't stand in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch!"