Untranslated strings should not return as null or empty - suggestion (source)

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I'm a fan of ##_t()## returning the untranslated string (rather than null or empty) if a suitable translation is not found.  The reason being:  Untranslated strings are easy to spot and (hopefully) fix.  But when null/empty is returned, it's not always apparent that a translation was missed.