Don't do stuff like that. Always include the full sentence. Doing that assumes a grammatical order and that makes the sentence not translatable in some languages.  If you need to embed some simple HTML, just include it into the translation, WebTranslateIt highlights it so that translators will notice and copy it over. If you need to embed a link, see https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora-project-site/commit/89c4c6c3b60906a9cd689e08d61e5d02d6d67dc4 for example on how to properly do that. In both cases do `<%= t('.key').html_safe %>` so that Rails doesn't escape the included HTML.