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.
They COULD give the Germans the English verision like everybody else... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> Who knows, you'd might even learn something (I know I did <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />).
Übereil
