To be more pedantic, naïve is spelled with a dieresis
a sign (upper part of ö) placed over the second of two adjacent vowels to indicate separate pronunciation, as in one spelling of the older forms naïve and coöperate: no longer widely used in English.
An umlaut is visually the same
a mark (upper part of ö) used as a diacritic over a vowel, as ä, ö, ü, to indicate a vowel sound different from that of the letter without the diacritic, esp. as so used in German.
On the other hand, calling upper part of ö an accent is not really wrong (see number 4).
3. a mark indicating stress (as (upper part of á), or (')), vowel quality (as French grave `, acute , circumflex ^), form (as French la "the" versus là "there"), or pitch.
4. any similar mark.
Note: Slashdot doesn't allow non-ASCII floating accents. I added "upper part of x" to the dictionary definitions quoted.
América (ie the Americas) is considered to be only one continent in Spanish speaking countries. Probably all the modern maps you can find are meade in the US.
Please, everyone here who does not think like this closed minded, hate filled near-human, respond here and prove the parent wrong... we do/not/ all think like racists.
I'm surprised that nobody has responded so far. Maybe all Slashdot readers are having a computerless Sunday? We should ask racists to answer this informal poll, so that not answering is not considered as agreeing with racism.
What SS should have been [...] is
All those things were done in Chile.
mandatory personal retirement savings accounts.
Determine the average length of time people will live, It's determined every 5 or 10 years. A recent increase in the estimations decreased pensions by 10%.
subtract the average length of time they can usefully work,
determine the average monthly income needed after retirement, 70% of average income while employed.
figure out a reasonable rate of return on funds deposited, I think it was 6%. Real rates have varied wildly.
and do the math to determine how much they need to be forced to save to provide for themselves. You are forced to save 10% of your earnings plus pay 1,5% for life insurance (for your spouse and children). And you must pay the administrators of your fund something near 1%.
An optimistic summary can be read in this New York Times article, written by prominent Chilean member of Cato Institute, José Piñera.
Metric fuel consumption is fuel _consumption_, not _efficiency_, and stated in Liters per 100km.
Here in Chile we use efficiency as in 12 kilometers to the liter. 8 liters per 100 km seems odd to me. Why not 83 cc/km?
In Slashdot shouldn't it be "Who wants to be my fan?"? Or "Who wants to make me their friend?".
I wouldn't be a friend of an invalid argument. You should consider renaming yourself as "wealth", "peace", "sex", "anonimity", "irony", "Linux", or "Open Source".
But even as i'm an american english speaker, i prefer the brittish version.
Here you are confusing speaker with writer. flavor/flavour are spellings. A speaker may prefer/fleivr/ over/fleiv@/ but that has nothing to fo with spelling.
This was the spelling in the US before Webster got his dictionary published. For some reason he thought that he knew better how words should be spelt, dispite having no linguistic qualifications.
When I saw that they were covering language sets that were extremely dissimilar to english, my interest in multi-language applications piqued again.
You are confusing a language with its script. A translation from Serbian to Croatian or from Urdu to Hindi should be straightforward, since they are actually two languages and not four. Translation is about languages, not character sets.
At least when a death result is expected. Many people are afraid of taking a plane, with 1 in a million deaths per flight (or something like that). Many people are afraid of taking a general anesthesic, with an odss of 1 in 200,000.
I always wondered why we just didn't take the US layout, changed one of the "Alt" keys to the "Alt-Gr" keys (that we already have) and then just add the accentuated characters when that modifier key is hold down.
This is very similar to the US International keyboard, in Windows. Also ' is a acute accent, ~ is used to make ñ, " is umlaut, ^ makes â, ê, etc. and ` is grave accent.
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http://vvvvvv.blox.pl/html/, that's 6 "v"s.
So Müller can be regarded as Spanish, or pingüino could be valid in German, but Eßpaña isn't valid anywhere.
http://hualañé.cl
http://www.ñandú.cl
América (ie the Americas) is considered to be only one continent in Spanish speaking countries. Probably all the modern maps you can find are meade in the US.
I'm surprised that nobody has responded so far. Maybe all Slashdot readers are having a computerless Sunday? We should ask racists to answer this informal poll, so that not answering is not considered as agreeing with racism.
Here in Chile we use letter sized paper. Its measures are 21,59 cm × 27,94 cm. No one cares if that means 8 × 11 inches.
Metric fuel consumption is fuel _consumption_, not _efficiency_, and stated in Liters per 100km. Here in Chile we use efficiency as in 12 kilometers to the liter. 8 liters per 100 km seems odd to me. Why not 83 cc/km?
Cut Spelng Society
I wouldn't be a friend of an invalid argument. You should consider renaming yourself as "wealth", "peace", "sex", "anonimity", "irony", "Linux", or "Open Source".
Cut Spelling could be used:
colr, neibr, glamr, actr, doctr, flavor, savor, savior, centr, sombr.
Unluckily it's flavor and not flavr.
flavor: from Latin flator
savor: from Latin saporem, sapor
color: from Latin color
honor: from Latin honor
doctor: from Latin doctor
Maybe they wanted to go to the beach at night after those hot days at the desert.
I've just read about the Dry Valleys. They are far away from the part of Antarctica claimed by Chile.
At least when a death result is expected. Many people are afraid of taking a plane, with 1 in a million deaths per flight (or something like that). Many people are afraid of taking a general anesthesic, with an odss of 1 in 200,000.
This is very similar to the US International keyboard, in Windows. Also ' is a acute accent, ~ is used to make ñ, " is umlaut, ^ makes â, ê, etc. and ` is grave accent.