>>The word accent has more than one meaning, in both English and French. And the word 'accent' is spelled the same in both languages. And the accented letter that I am talking about has nothing to do with the stress. Hence the title of the thread is not accurate: accent could be how you write and not how you say.
>>But you know that; you just like to talk to me :)
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>How long are you in the US now? I'd expect that, for you, the primary meaning of the word is "small but visually attractive element of interior decoration".
In Spanish, the word 'tilde' means a written accent placed over a letter. Any written accent. Which confuses a lot of people since the word 'tilde' also means the tilde, a type of mark placed over a letter N.
Could it be that the word 'accent' confuses you in the same way? :)
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