For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you’re or there/their/they’re. I’m curious about similar mistakes in other languages.

  • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    I am guilty of doing that but only because my computer keyboard doesn’t have an ñ.

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      1 year ago

      Liar you just used it. Just admit you don’t like ñ’s dope haircut.

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        1 year ago

        I’m not on my computer. My phone keyboard does all sorts of fun crazy things; some of them are even intentional.

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      1 year ago

      Use double n, that’s the archaic way of spelling that (tilde derives from n on top of another n)

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      or configure your keyboard as English international, dead tildes. You can use ~ with an n to produce an ñ. At least in gnu/Linux that’s easy to do

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      For people on Linux, hit [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[u] then type [0] [0] [f] [1]. That will enter an ñ when you hit the next key.

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        For people on Linux, enable the compose key in your keyboard settings and then type [Compose] [n] [~].

        The compose-key method for entering accented letters is by far the easiest to use for any desktop OS … but it’s not enabled by default because you have to give up some modifier key to use it.

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          It’s completely off-topic but Compose is amazing. Specially as you can actually customise it for your usage, with a .XCompose file. For me it’s the only think that makes phonetic transcription flow, otherwise you got to shift layouts back and forth to write something like “[tɾɐ̃skɾi’sɜ̃ʊ̯] ⟨transcrição⟩”.

          Here’s mine, if anyone is interested.

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            Based solely off this comment, I just wanna say you seem like such a cool person. Anyone who has a custom file on their OS to facilitate using IPA characters is good people in my book.