diff --git a/include/audacity/Types.h b/include/audacity/Types.h
index fd121fba7..1819ad150 100644
--- a/include/audacity/Types.h
+++ b/include/audacity/Types.h
@@ -348,9 +348,11 @@ public:
    // Returns true if context is NullContextFormatter
    bool IsVerbatim() const;
 
-   // Capture variadic format arguments (by copy).  The subsitution is
+   // Capture variadic format arguments (by copy).  The substitution is
    // computed later in a call to Translate() after msgid is looked up in the
    // translation catalog.
+   // Any format arguments that are also of type TranslatableString will be
+   // translated too at substitution time
    template <typename... Args>
    TranslatableString&& Format( Args&&... args ) &&
    {
@@ -361,17 +363,34 @@ public:
          if (str.empty())
             return context;
          else
-            return wxString::Format( str, args... );
+            return wxString::Format(
+               str, TranslatableString::TranslateArgument(args)... );
       };
       return std::move( *this );
    }
 
+   // Append another translatable string; lookup of msgids for
+   // this and for the argument are both delayed until Translate() is invoked
+   // on this, and then the formatter concatenates the translations
+   TranslatableString &operator +=( const TranslatableString &arg );
+
    friend std::hash< TranslatableString >;
 private:
 
+   template< typename T > static const T &TranslateArgument( const T &arg )
+   { return arg; }
+   static wxString TranslateArgument ( const TranslatableString &arg )
+   { return arg.Translation(); }
+
    Formatter mFormatter;
 };
 
+inline TranslatableString operator +(
+   const TranslatableString &x, const TranslatableString &y  )
+{
+   return TranslatableString{ x } += y;
+}
+
 using TranslatableStrings = std::vector<TranslatableString>;
 
 // For using std::unordered_map on TranslatableString
diff --git a/src/Internat.cpp b/src/Internat.cpp
index b0c006714..328d55bb6 100644
--- a/src/Internat.cpp
+++ b/src/Internat.cpp
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ bool Internat::SanitiseFilename(wxString &name, const wxString &sub)
    // Special Mac stuff
    // '/' is permitted in file names as seen in dialogs, even though it is
    // the path separator.  The "real" filename as seen in the terminal has ':'.
-   // Do NOT return true if this is the only subsitution.
+   // Do NOT return true if this is the only substitution.
    name.Replace(wxT("/"), wxT(":"));
 #endif
 
@@ -325,3 +325,17 @@ wxString TranslatableString::Translation() const
 
    return result;
 }
+
+TranslatableString &TranslatableString::operator +=(
+   const TranslatableString &arg )
+{
+   auto prevFormatter = mFormatter;
+   mFormatter = [prevFormatter, arg](const wxString &str){
+      if (str.empty())
+         return prevFormatter ? prevFormatter({}) : wxString{};
+      else
+         return (prevFormatter ? prevFormatter(str) : str)
+            + arg.Translation();
+   };
+   return *this;
+}