lonely are the brave

[sergebroom]

"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!

Comments

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

É moi boa ideia.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Translates as "What a good idea" ?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

More or less.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

'More' more than 'less'? Or the other way around?

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Literally it was 'It is a very good idea'. Not quite 'What a good idea' (Que moi boa ideia!).

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Ah hah!

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

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

Ah.