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Precisely. Even when writing by hand, where there are no character encoding limitations, I've never seen anyone add the accents to "fiance" or "cafe" or "resume
by nkrisc 7y ago
Precisely. Even when writing by hand, where there are no character encoding limitations, I've never seen anyone add the accents to "fiance" or "cafe" or "resume" when writing in English.
- chrisseaton 7y ago> I've never seen anyone add the accents to "fiance" or "cafe" or "resume" when writing in English. We have café all the way from McDonalds up to Buckingham Palace. https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/menu/mccafe.html https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/menu/mccafe.html https://www.rct.uk/visit/the-state-rooms-buckingham-palace https://www.rct.uk/visit/the-state-rooms-buckingham-palace
- nkrisc 7y agoYou've quoted me out of context. I was referring to handwriting. Besides, I would bet dropping the accent is more common than including it.
- spadros 7y ago"I only see such spellings when people are trying to convey some sort of sophistication" McCafe and Buckingham Palace would want the "sophistication angle". Both spellings work obviously, but IMO (and the majority of English books) "cafe" is the "correct" spelling. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caf%C3%A9%2Ccafe&year_start=1840&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ccaf%C3%A9%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ccafe%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caf%C3%A9%2Cca...