Re: Question about "do"
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 28, 2003, 14:23 |
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En réponse à Joe :
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> > [Nitpick further?]
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> > As far as Spanish is concerned, actually "tilde" only means "accent mark".
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>(The final nitpick)
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>But we are speaking in English.
(the nitpick that kills them all)
We are *writing* in English ;))) .
And note that my Spanish teacher (who is Spanish of origin) taught us that
"tilde" (the Spanish word) refers only to the mark differentiating "n" from
"ñ" (which is a separate letter in Spanish), and "accent mark" is "acento".
Christophe Grandsire.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.