We'll cover all the different types of accent, how they're pronounced (if they're pronounced at all), and the effect they have on a word's grammar and/or meaning. So let's look at the different types of French accent and how they're used. Which one would you rather have on your résumé? Getting your accents right is the difference between being a pêcheur (fisherman) and a pécheur (sinner). Sometimes they can completely change the meaning of a word. Sometimes they affect pronunciation, sometimes they don't. They serve several different purposes in the language. In French, however, the accent marks are not optional.įrench has several different accent marks, also known as “diacritics”. The words café and résumé are originally French, and in English we often write those words without the accents. janewells October 26, 2017įortunately, it is already easy to type letters with accent marks on the internet! If you're posting to Twitter or Facebook during Game 3 on Friday night, it is within your power to write "Kiké Hernández" in the same way the broadcasters do.Full disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. I think there are some baseball fans out there who would like to do this in their own social media posts, but don't know how. well, you know. So broadcasters and sports journalists have adopted a convention of giving Kiké an accent aigu, even though he's not French, because doing so adds a little bit of clarity about pronunciation that's good for everyone.
The proper way to write his nickname in Spanish is "Kike."īut that's not a great way to write it in English because. There's no irregular stress in Hern ández's nickname, and an 'e' at the end of a word would ordinarily be pronounced as 'ay,' so there's no accent mark required. An acute accent in Spanish indicates an irregularly stressed syllable, which is why the 'a' in 'Hernández" gets one.
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