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Originally written by Thuryl:

Accents on a Mac are dead easy. Type option-* followed by the letter you want to put an accent over, where * is one of the following:

option-` = grave accent (àèìòù)
option-e = acute accent (áéíóú)
option-u = umlaut/diaeresis (äëïöü)
option-i = circumflex (âêîôû)
option-n = tilde (ãñõ)

In this case, you want the acute accent over an E, so type option-E followed by E, to get é, as in "cliché". (Yes, this is the correct accent, not the way Spring did it. Who are you going to believe?)

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Originally written by cfgauss:


I think English is pretty easy. You don't have to remember if the table, or the tv, or a pencil is supposed to be called he, she, or it.

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Even though English is probably the hardest language to learn, it's also pretty flexible, and you don't need to worry about insulting people by saying "Yo es bonito" to a girl.

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I think English is pretty easy. You don't have to remember if the table, or the tv, or a pencil is supposed to be called he, she, or it. That takes out a whole lot of memorizing! It also makes conjugation easy, because if you'd like to use a verb with your table, you have to know what gender it is.

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Originally written by cfgauss:

Another reason it's easy,
He is, she is, it is. He runs, she runs, it runs. There's a lot of not changing that goes on here.

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Originally written by cfgauss:

Although we do have a lot of things like verbs that are irregular, that's because they come from other languages, so it's not like non-english speakers can complain because their word doesn't follow the rules! :P

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Originally written by cfgauss:

I took 3 quarters of college German, which is about as close to English as you can get

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Yes, because those are all third-person singuar. English still has vestigial tense in the third-person singular (he runs, they run) and in the verb to be (I am, we are, he/she/it is)

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And memorizing our spelling is generally far more heinous than remembering arbitrary gender.

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And since Anglo-Saxon was the linguistic ancestor of our language, these are the only words that can be said not to have been borrowed from other languages.

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Are you nuts? The French use a double negative as a matter of policy - je ne X pas is the grammatically correct way of negating, as opposed to the common but incorrect je X pas.

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