diff --git a/app/views/layouts/_notifications.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/_notifications.html.haml
index 556d9f82..6aceca73 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/_notifications.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/_notifications.html.haml
@@ -55,16 +55,10 @@
                   %h6.media-heading.notification--dropdown-user
                     = user_screen_name notification.target.user
                   .notification--dropdown-text
-                    / TODO: holy fuck I'm not going to touch this with locales for now, this one will be complicated.
-                    commented on
-                    %a{href: show_user_answer_path(username: notification.target.user.screen_name, id: notification.target.answer.id), title: "#{notification.target.answer.content[0..40]}...", data: { toggle: :tooltip, placement: :top }}
-                      - if notification.target.answer.user == current_user
-                        your
-                      - elsif notification.target.user == notification.target.answer.user
-                        their
-                      - else
-                        = user_screen_name(notification.target.answer.user, false, false) + "'s"
-                      answer
-                    = time_ago_in_words notification.target.created_at
-                    ago
+                    - if notification.target.answer.user == current_user
+                      = raw t('views.notifications.comment.body', content: link_to(t('views.notifications.comment.your', user: user_screen_name(current_user, false, false)), show_user_answer_path(username: notification.target.user.screen_name, id: notification.target.answer.id)), time: time_tooltip(notification.target))
+                    - elsif notification.target.user == notification.target.answer.user
+                      = raw t('views.notifications.comment.body', content: link_to(t('views.notifications.comment.their', user: user_screen_name(notification.target.answer.user, false, false)), show_user_answer_path(username: notification.target.user.screen_name, id: notification.target.answer.id)), time: time_tooltip(notification.target))
+                    - else
+                      = raw t('views.notifications.comment.body', content: link_to(t('views.notifications.comment.user', user: user_screen_name(notification.target.user, false, false)), show_user_answer_path(username: notification.target.user.screen_name, id: notification.target.answer.id)), time: time_tooltip(notification.target))
     %li= link_to "#{t('views.notifications.show')}#{t('views.notifications.mark') if notifications.pluck(:new).any?}", notifications_path
diff --git a/app/views/notifications/_notification.html.haml b/app/views/notifications/_notification.html.haml
index 02f526b2..1cfd3de2 100644
--- a/app/views/notifications/_notification.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/notifications/_notification.html.haml
@@ -48,18 +48,11 @@
           %h6.media-heading.notification--user
             = user_screen_name notification.target.user
           %p.notification--text
-            / TODO: holy fuck I'm not going to touch this with locales for now, this one will be complicated.
-            commented on
-            %a{href: show_user_answer_path(username: notification.target.user.screen_name, id: notification.target.answer.id), title: "#{notification.target.answer.content[0..40]}...", data: { toggle: :tooltip, placement: :top }}
-              - if notification.target.answer.user == current_user
-                your
-              - elsif notification.target.user == notification.target.answer.user
-                their
-              - else
-                = user_screen_name(notification.target.answer.user, false, false) + "'s"
-              answer
-            %span{title: notification.target.created_at, data: { toggle: :tooltip, placement: :bottom }}
-              = time_ago_in_words notification.target.created_at
-            ago
+            - if notification.target.answer.user == current_user
+              = raw t('views.notifications.comment.body', content: link_to(t('views.notifications.comment.your', user: user_screen_name(current_user, false, false)), show_user_answer_path(username: notification.target.user.screen_name, id: notification.target.answer.id)), time: time_tooltip(notification.target))
+            - elsif notification.target.user == notification.target.answer.user
+              = raw t('views.notifications.comment.body', content: link_to(t('views.notifications.comment.their', user: user_screen_name(notification.target.answer.user, false, false)), show_user_answer_path(username: notification.target.user.screen_name, id: notification.target.answer.id)), time: time_tooltip(notification.target))
+            - else
+              = raw t('views.notifications.comment.body', content: link_to(t('views.notifications.comment.user', user: user_screen_name(notification.target.user, false, false)), show_user_answer_path(username: notification.target.user.screen_name, id: notification.target.answer.id)), time: time_tooltip(notification.target))
           .notification--icon
             %i.fa.fa-comments
diff --git a/config/locales/en.yml b/config/locales/en.yml
index 65679d19..cf4d83a0 100644
--- a/config/locales/en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/en.yml
@@ -32,9 +32,15 @@ en:
       relationship:
         body: "followed you %{time} ago"
       smile:
-        body: "smiled at %{content} %{time} ago" # content v
-        answer: "your answer" # content if smile
-        comment: "your comment" # content if commentsmile
+        body: "smiled at %{content} %{time} ago" # see below for 'content' vvvv
+        answer: "your answer" # content if smile, 'smiled at your answer'
+        comment: "your comment" # content if commentsmile, 'smiled at your comment'
+      comment:
+        body: 'commented on %{content} %{time} ago' # see below for 'content' vvvv
+        your: 'your answer' # 'commented on your answer'
+        their: 'their answer' # 'commented on their answer'
+        user: '#{user}\'s answer' # 'commented on user's asnwer'
+        # all three have the 'user' variable
       tabs:
         all: "All notifications"
         answer: "Answers"