An "annoying" little problem
This really came up when trying to post a reply to someone in MySpace who did not speak English... So, I put my brain into "low-gear" to try to respond in their native language (French), only to get hung up on how to write "agaçent" (It was that little hangy down thing on the 'c' so thatyou can turn it into a 'ç'. Turns out that it is the 'opt-c' on a Mac, or 'alt-c' on the PC)... So, I have no problem with that now... I can say "Annoyed/irritated" (agaçent) in French now (I wonder if I should have used gêner instead??? I am not too up on the subtleties between the various ways to say "annoyed/irritated" in French)...
So, I think that evertything is OK. I have all of the other accented latin characters down... Or do I... There is the little 'ç' in agaçent, there is the 'ê' in gêner, and there are other accents such as the é in améliorer (similar to the English ameliorate: to make better, to make up to, to enhance, etc) or the î in connaître (to get to know, meet, etc. rot of the English word reconnaisence, which is really just a French word used in English. But, to get back to my accenting woes)... and I am able to do al of the rest of the accents (û, ê, â, ô, ö, ü, ë, ä, ï, í, ó, ú, á, ç, å, ã, and so on)... at least, as I said above.. I THINK that I know them... Then I run into the need to write a really small French word 'à'... It just means 'to' in French... Like "A to Z" or "here to there", but I cannot find where to get the accent mark for ` (The one that goes to the left, not the one that goes to the right, like most good little accent marks do - I am being facetious there on so many different levels...) So, we have this accent mark that goes like this '´', but I can't find the one that goes like this: '`' . Obviously, it is the upper-left-hand most character if you just want it by itself, only it took me about ten minutes to remember that... And then another ten to finally put the whole thing together...
Let's see... If you have to push the 'opt' ('alt' key on a PC) to get the accent for the other characters... Then you must need to push the opt ket to get the ` character, but what is stalling me is that I am thinking since most of the other characters output something other than what they are, that pushing the ` key will output something else, and/or won't let me put a character under it like it will when you push the opt-i ˆ, opt-u ¨, the opt-e ´, or the opt-n ˜.
Now, a lot of you (all three of you) are probably reading this and thinking "Why doesn't he just try it and see?"
Oh! That would be too smart...
Eventually that is just what I did... Not after googling "Accented Latin Characters" and looking through endless links to see what to do, then trying "mac accented latin characters" (wondering if the addition of the word 'mac' and the lack of capital letters would do any good)...
So, after ten minutes of screwing around with that, I decide "I am just going to go through all of the characters with the 'opt' key pressed to see what they produce."
What do you know... I decided to start in the upper-left-hand corner of the keyboard, and the first thing I try produces a highlighted ` (meaning that it is waiting for you to put another appropriate character under it... I slowly hit 'a' and out pops an 'à'...
So... that provided a half and hour of entertainment for tonight...
To make this even more tragic... ALL of this came about because I overslept going to a party at a friend's that I met last weekend at the Singularity Summit... They had already headed-out for the night when I called... Sucks...
So, was this about the most tragic post that you have read?
So, I think that evertything is OK. I have all of the other accented latin characters down... Or do I... There is the little 'ç' in agaçent, there is the 'ê' in gêner, and there are other accents such as the é in améliorer (similar to the English ameliorate: to make better, to make up to, to enhance, etc) or the î in connaître (to get to know, meet, etc. rot of the English word reconnaisence, which is really just a French word used in English. But, to get back to my accenting woes)... and I am able to do al of the rest of the accents (û, ê, â, ô, ö, ü, ë, ä, ï, í, ó, ú, á, ç, å, ã, and so on)... at least, as I said above.. I THINK that I know them... Then I run into the need to write a really small French word 'à'... It just means 'to' in French... Like "A to Z" or "here to there", but I cannot find where to get the accent mark for ` (The one that goes to the left, not the one that goes to the right, like most good little accent marks do - I am being facetious there on so many different levels...) So, we have this accent mark that goes like this '´', but I can't find the one that goes like this: '`' . Obviously, it is the upper-left-hand most character if you just want it by itself, only it took me about ten minutes to remember that... And then another ten to finally put the whole thing together...
Let's see... If you have to push the 'opt' ('alt' key on a PC) to get the accent for the other characters... Then you must need to push the opt ket to get the ` character, but what is stalling me is that I am thinking since most of the other characters output something other than what they are, that pushing the ` key will output something else, and/or won't let me put a character under it like it will when you push the opt-i ˆ, opt-u ¨, the opt-e ´, or the opt-n ˜.
Now, a lot of you (all three of you) are probably reading this and thinking "Why doesn't he just try it and see?"
Oh! That would be too smart...
Eventually that is just what I did... Not after googling "Accented Latin Characters" and looking through endless links to see what to do, then trying "mac accented latin characters" (wondering if the addition of the word 'mac' and the lack of capital letters would do any good)...
So, after ten minutes of screwing around with that, I decide "I am just going to go through all of the characters with the 'opt' key pressed to see what they produce."
What do you know... I decided to start in the upper-left-hand corner of the keyboard, and the first thing I try produces a highlighted ` (meaning that it is waiting for you to put another appropriate character under it... I slowly hit 'a' and out pops an 'à'...
So... that provided a half and hour of entertainment for tonight...
To make this even more tragic... ALL of this came about because I overslept going to a party at a friend's that I met last weekend at the Singularity Summit... They had already headed-out for the night when I called... Sucks...
So, was this about the most tragic post that you have read?