Re: Making modifiers out of nouns

In a message dated 4/29/2007 8:25:02 PM Central Daylight Time, 
veritosproject@GMAIL.COM writes:


> > Gracías! (Now did I spell that right.)
> 
> No, you didn't. On a 3+ syllable word, the accent defaults to the
> penultimate. The accent is unnecessary. OWNED! Just kidding.
"Gracias" is a two-syllable word, since the "i" is not a separate syllable, 
and the stress defaults to the penultimate when the word ends in a vowel, "s", 
or, "n".  Portuguese, on the other hand, does put a written accent on the 
first syllable.  I suppose in Portuguese it's the vowels that are counted, and not 
just the syllables.

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