By Accents, Apostrophes

Hi, here are my comments.Youtube videosGood! That's a cool feature, embedded videos. The only problem is that you can also watch other videos in the same embedded player, not only the one the poster intended to show, because it shows (and plays) related videos at the end. So I just wanted to...

1-- Can not is a less common form of cannot.2-- accents (acute and grave) are diacritical marks used over certain letters in foreign words or words of foreign origin, as in déjà vu, cliché and ménage à trois.

Hey allI'm just starting up as an Instructional Designer and I've just run into two problems. 1. What's the difference between "cannot" and "can not"? Is it simply that one of them is bad English? Or is it american vs imperial?2. In English, apostrophe (') is used as an aid for possessive...

The slant of the apostrophe is irrelevant; it is basically vertical, but takes slightly different angles in different fonts.Just don't confuse it with an accent grave (slanting down from left to right) or accent acute (slanting up from L to R)-- these are used in French and other foreign languages.

Hi, This is an interesting story! I have suggested some amendments to make it read better. My changes are shown in bold. One thing you should be careful about is the use of capitals. Usually only proper names are written with a capital letter, though words can be capitalised for literary...

Thank you for your answers. I often wonder how English is perceived by those who don't use it as a first language. Since I've known English all my life, I feel like I've never been able to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of the language. I've tried looking at texts written in English and...

Dear Gniagnia, The others are: ' apostrophe ` grave accent & ampersand ^ caret if it is alone, circumflex if it is on a vowel / forward slash or solidus \ back slash or reverse solidus [ left square bracket { left curly bracket ( left parenthesis You may open Character Map and...

Hi folks, I really love this site, it reminds me of the apostrophe protection society blog. Very interesting! Anyway, I believe there is a very simple method to differentiate between effect and affect. When used as nouns, the difference is pretty obvious. An effect is a result of an action,...

Hi Sonia, Maybe you are referring to the apostrophe such as in I'm or I'll. Here it can mean that a contraction was made. I am = I'm. It also has some other meanings which appear in another thread. Apostrophes Could you give us an example? The Tilde is the mark (~ or sometimes ´ ) that is...