The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163332   Message #3897555
Posted By: Steve Shaw
05-Jan-18 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: blue passports - political smokescreen?
Subject: RE: BS: blue passports - political smokescreen?
It's mostly fine to type foreign words used in English without their accents. Passe is grand, as is cliche. Stress ye not! Papier mache, no accent. Cafe, no accent. You keep accents for proper names, including people's, cities' and countries', and in order to avoid confusion: Brussels pate (not even gonna try...) should have an acute at the end to avoid confusion with bald pate, but no circumflex over the a. This is not prescriptive, as we can all do what we like as ever, just a reflection of the way things are going. One day we'll regard getting all emotional about accents as so passe.