#<-famous last words. words before being struck down by a heavenly-thrown thunderbolt
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i think in general i just ignore the diaeresis. i already know aiguë is two syllables. skill issue.
yes that means every time you see me use é i actually held down the alt key and pressed 130. every ç is the result of alt+135. every ù (151) takes me at least three tries because i always do û (150) and ô (147) first. i do ê (136) instead of â (131) all the time. è (138) is my babygirl and i would never forget her. on the other hand sometimes i use i instead of ï (139) because who can remember that. i just try a bunch of random shit until i finally get an î (140) and then i'm like oh yeah 140, duh. also even though i almost never type in spanish i will remember ñ (164) until the day i die. and of course all the acute accents in the 160s (á í ó ú, no é for some reason but as mentioned i have secret french knowledge that unlocks alt+130). i only needed to know the danish accented letters for like two weeks but occasionally i can come out with a æ (145), ø (0248), or å (134), usually by accident. this is what i'm using long-term storage for. i don't even know how to switch keyboards.
#<-famous last words. words before being struck down by a heavenly-thrown thunderbolt#in the shape of a string of connected regular and inverted circumflexes#for my hubris#okay but also it's partly out of pique. because it doesn't really make any sense that it's aiguë and not aigüe#though apparently according to WR it has been aigüe since 1990. really? does anyone actually do that though because i only see aiguë#granted i am mostly reading shit that's 200 years old lmao#now place names that's a whole other thing. i don't know how to pronounce a single place name of anything anywhere#that's what forvo is for
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