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Small nitpick: it irks me to see "yerba mate" spelled as "yerba maté." I wonder where the hell that came from. I suspect it's about not confusing it with mate a
by diego 14y ago
Small nitpick: it irks me to see "yerba mate" spelled as "yerba maté." I wonder where the hell that came from. I suspect it's about not confusing it with mate as in pal or buddy.
- evincarofautumn 14y agoYeah. It’s a hyperforeignism, I think. Kind of a shame that diaeresis and respelling aren’t used in English much anymore, else it’d properly be spelled matë or Anglicised as mattay.
- yareally 14y agoIt's hard to for many at least in the United States to use é or other words with explicit accent symbols due to the way our keyboards are set up. I have mine modded to use shortcut keys to make them, but that's more than what most would ever want to deal with.
- ht_th 14y agoAs a European using the extended latin alphabet, setting your keyboard up to easily type é, is easy: use a modifier key. Then, for example, MOD + ' followed by e becomes é. Similarly you can make à, ô, ĩ, œ, ů, and so on. I even believe this is the default setting (as I cannot remember setting it manually). But I agree that if you don't use these characters, setting it up to type one or two odd characters isn't worth the hassle.
- yareally 14y agoI do something like that. My right alt key set to do alt+e for é or alt+u for ú. Also works nice for doing things like ³ and π with the number 3.
- ht_th 14y agoI use the Windows keys for that as I have no other use for them. Now you've mentioned it, I can make easily a lot of symbols I've never used as well: ₈8⁸ǫẹ. That might come in handy writing formula in plain text.
- yareally 14y agoThat's sort of why I have them as well. I used π or µ as a variable constant before in a script I was writing or use ² and ³ in documentation for something.
- DanBC 14y agoIn OS X you type alt e (to get the acute accent ´) and then e. é.