Re: CHAT: R: Re: CHAT: Yorkshire/Texas (was: dl)

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> En réponse à Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>:
>
> > Oui--les E'tats-Unis (?), si je me souviens correctement.
>
> If the ' stands for an acute accent on the E, it's correct (though in French we
> don't usually write accents on capital letters). Well, this is a perfectly
> correct French sentence, even the orthography is correct! You still remember
> quite a lot of French Yoon Ha!
It was an attempt at an accent aigu, yes.  <wry g>  My French teachers
were anal about accent marks even on capital letters; I'll have to
remember that.  Merci beaucoup--on essaie!  :-)

YHL

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