Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Malheureusement, I see that absence of accented capitals is a modern >> phenomenon that is regarded as an impediment to the language mostly >> stemming from laziness of individual authors and inadequacy of low-end >> typesetting software. I hadn't realised I was so up-to-date ;-) >> >> So I will have to stop propagating this misinformation. >> > > Thats really weird, because I was taught in school that caps are not to > be accented. In school! Big Brother is an idiot. > > I'm equally ammused by the part of JBJ's link where it says that a > missing acccent "fait hésiter sur la prononciation". Yeah, AS IF written > French had anything to do with the way it is pronounced. Not that I > don't like french, mind you. Everywhere outside action movies its pretty > cool. > > /W
Then you never saw Taxi. Or some of Depardieu's ones. Or Les adventuriers (sp?) (that's a reeeeally old one), or I comme Icarus.... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
