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Yeah, you are, because accents are often left off of capital letters in French.
by lanstein 16y ago
Yeah, 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.