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Also, it bugs me that it's Etude and not Étude, but I'm probably alone in that :)
by samstokes 16y ago
Also, it bugs me that it's Etude and not Étude, but I'm probably alone in that :)
- lanstein 16y agoYeah, you are, because accents are often left off of capital letters in French.
- samstokes 16y agoHuh, didn't know that, but you're right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_alphabet#Diacritics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_alphabet#Diacritics). I declare myself out-pedanted :)
- lanstein 16y ago:-)
- samstokes 16y agoMetacomment: I find it amusing that I got more upvotes for providing attribution for a refutation of my own minor criticism of Etude than for my original comment actually discussing Etude. I guess I'm being rewarded for admitting and embracing my own wrongness!
- masklinn 16y agoYeah, but they are only because it's a pain to type them on the french AZERTY keyboard: it doesn't have an easy to find dead key for the acute accent. So either you type an accent-less character, or you waste 10mn looking for a way to have the accent in. As far as the Académie Française is concerned, diacritics are not optional.
- masklinn 16y agoFor technical reason though, the Académie clearly states diacritics are not optional. So it should be Étude indeed.