30th January 2004, 2:25 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:Along with Z-with-hat and one other (i forget which...), are completely seperate letters, not just accents...
And yes in another language English would use accents since we have numerous words which have one spelling and multiple pronunciations. But we just don't like them. :)
And as for Spanish, you're right that the accents clarify things, but do you always have to write it with them? I don't think so but you might, it's been too long since I took it...
According to what my Spanish teacher has taught us, you always have to use an accent mark in a word that contains it. Your paper would get marked wrong if you put tu instead of tú or whatever.