----- Original Message -----
From: "Roberto Suarez Soto" <ask4it@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: Question about "do"
> On Jul/27/2003, Joe wrote:
>
> > vais manger cette tourte", "Voy a comer éste pastel". I don't thionk
they do
>
> (Just nitpicking)
>
> The tilde in "éste" is wrong; it's only used as a diacritical
> mark, to differentiate pronouns (with tilde) and articles (no tilde).
> So, in this case, it would be "este", without tilde. If you only said
> "Voy a comer éste" (in response to "¿Qué pastel vas a comer?", for
> example), then "éste" would be the proper form.
Okay. My mistake.
> --
> Roberto Suarez Soto
>