Re: (In)transitive verbs
| From: | Shreyas Sampat <shreyas@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 13, 2004, 22:06 |
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Tristan McLeay wrote:
>In French, it demands the diaerisis. In English, it doesn't care; English
>is not known for its accent-happiness. If you would say that facade, cafe
>or El Nino are wrong, then you would say that naive is wrong. If you would
>say that façade, café or El Niño are pedantic, you would say that naïve is
>pedantic.
>
>
Just to be pedantic, Tristan: for some of us, there's a sort of sliding
scale of pedantry, with acutes and cedilles at the low end and diaereses
at the high end.
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