accents in written language. grrrr.

:wails: I thought English and Chinese were supposed to rule the world linguisitically by now!

No more of these sodding characters with breves and cedillas and carons and... WTF is a sodding macron, for Love Swami's sake?

:mutters: come the revolution, all silly little marks over or under or through letters to indicate pronunciation will be wiped out. You can cope with association and context for it like the English do, and sod the fact that our spelling makes no sense! Yours tends to, so it can cope much beter than ours, dammit!

The only accents we admit to come from words we swiped from the French because we didn't have a word for it of our own. And even then most of the time we can't be arsed.

This brought to you by having to trawl through the charts at unicode for the sodding *name* of it, then find out what the character looks like from there, get its hex number, plug that into the calculator to get its dec number to plug into the xml editor. FORTY-THREE SODDING TIMES.

You will all die horribly. All of you.

theatre geek snickering

Just had email from a tickets mailing list I'm on.

'Best Seats for Guys and Dolls for only £37.50!'

me : 'Explain to me how these are better than front row centre seats for a tenner.'

Email : :looks pouty and sidles off, defeated:

Oh, and wiccachik, there appear to be tickets left for that show which invoved grovelling - do you want me to ring up and see what they've got left? I mean, it would be torture to go again, really it would, and miniosiris has the one for tomorrow.