People who write he ha hemos has etc without the "h"

[Rich One]

Did these people not know about hotkeys? It's very easy to make an ñ on most keyboards (option + n on a mac).

Anyway, without it, how would we distinguish between ano and año? (¿Hola, cuántos anos tienes? Yo tengo ...)

Correcto, but the EU heads in Brussels wanted to reduce the use of characters not available on standard keyboards. Furthermore some printers don't have Ñ as a choice..? Printouts come with a $ sign in place.

 

[on the brink]

Is there an opening question mark in Macs? How about a capital ñ?

 

[Rich One]

Is there an opening question mark in Macs? How about a capital ñ?

Can select a Spanish keyboard, or keep a torpedo with alt`+ ? for Ñ, ñ , ¿, etc.

 

[Fiscal]

There was a TED talk -- from TED Buenos Aires of course-- where the speaker argued that the silent H and the V should be dropped. She argued that these are "classist symbols" as poor (and less educated) people are more likely to not know when to use them. Hence, she argued, they need to go.

How about you make sure everyone has access to basic education? Spanish is not even hard to spell as it is. So to that lady I say, check out English or French. Now these are hard to spell.

Let's just get rid of grammar and spelling too!

 

[on the brink]

Spelling is done for - just check any WhatsApp text. Creative spelling is the new normal.

 

[mmoon]

Jajajajajaja!
So nice to read a post that has nothing to do with covid or inflation

 

[camel]

This is just how kids type these days -- 'e estado pensando"? or they actually don't know how to spell?

haber haber

 

[ben]

Is there an opening question mark in Macs? How about a capital ñ?

¿ - Option-?
ñ - Option-n, then n. Same as for many other accents (Option-e followed by the letter for ´, Option-` for `, Option-I for ˆ, Option-S for ß, Option-u for umlaut ( ¨ ), etc etc etc.
This is really easy enough that a special key is not needed. You commit it to muscle memory in no time.

 

[on the brink]

Thanks for the tutorial, Ben......!

 

[Rich One]

¿ - Option-?
ñ - Option-n, then n. Same as for many other accents (Option-e followed by the letter for ´, Option-` for `, Option-I for ˆ, Option-S for ß, Option-u for umlaut ( ¨ ), etc etc etc.
This is really easy enough that a special key is not needed. You commit it to muscle memory in no time.

Ben

Where is the Option key on PC keyboard ? = Alt ? ( or other function ? ) Fn key plus letter does nothing in my PC

In my early days characters were entered as Alt 178 or similar, Alt plus numbers.