.. because it would add every term from circuitpython.pot to it;
then in turn, "make translate" would remove almost every message
from circuitpython.pot, and then give a pre-commit error.
Hopefully "synthetic.pot" won't get the same treatment.
This may require manual intervention on weblate to resolve a merge
conflict and undo weblate's chyange to synthetic.po/.pot.
Jeff Epler