lonely are the brave

Mar. 5th, 2007 02:14 pm
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"The semicolon is your friend. Don't leave it all lonely and unused."

So said my friend Abi, when she explained how to insert special characters into words.

Noël! Noël!

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Date: Mar. 6th, 2007 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
É moi boa ideia.

Date: Mar. 6th, 2007 06:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Translates as "What a good idea" ?

Date: Mar. 6th, 2007 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
'More' more than 'less'? Or the other way around?

Date: Mar. 6th, 2007 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
Literally it was 'It is a very good idea'. Not quite 'What a good idea' (Que moi boa ideia!).

Date: Mar. 6th, 2007 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Ah hah!

At least I got the spirit of the phrase right, if not its specifics.

Date: Mar. 6th, 2007 03:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledgist.livejournal.com
Indeed!

Date: Mar. 6th, 2007 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miltonthales.livejournal.com


Um, if the subject is semicolons, why use umlauts in the example?

Date: Mar. 6th, 2007 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serge-lj.livejournal.com
Oh, the semi-colon should be used in a word if we want the HTML to display special characters that pullulate in French. That includes accents and the above-mentionned umlaut.

Date: Mar. 7th, 2007 01:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miltonthales.livejournal.com
Ah.
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