I mean, you write cinéma. But do you write CINEMA or CINÉMA?
2007-06-07 23:29:01 · 13 answers · asked by Hana K 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I always use accents. I printed the ASCII codes; I know most of them by heart by now, but I have a look at them when I can't rememeber a special code.
É
È
Â
À
Ç (I had to look this up!)
2007-06-07 23:37:22 · answer #1 · answered by raggiante 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The correct way is to write CINÉMA. Whether it is in caps or small letters, the e always takes an accent. My french teacher is the source for this. Thank you.
2016-05-19 21:53:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually not - but the practice of not putting accents on caps arose from the typewriter, where the accent would interfere with the larger capital letter. It's much easier to do with modern word processing packages these days.
2007-06-07 23:33:33 · answer #3 · answered by JJ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
We write CINEMA -or with an accent, but it isn't the best form
You'r allowed to write both.
Ciao.
Déby
P.S: I'm better in french than in england, therefore it's possible some mistakes are on my sentenses.
2007-06-07 23:58:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The use of upper case accented characters is floating. There's no fixed rule about it. So the good thing on the subject is that you can't be wrong!
L'Académie française recommends to use them, and Le monde, the "reference" newspaper, uses them too.
Personally, I prefer to use them, it makes more sense. And if you don't use them it could lead to misinterpretations.
The problem is that you have to use codes on your keyboard to type them in.
Here are the most common, (sorry, I'm too lazy to type all the codes in)...
À = alt + 0192
É = alt + 0201
È = alt + 0200
Ç = alt + 0199 (people tend to forget about the dear cedilla)
2007-06-08 02:30:40 · answer #5 · answered by matinyoupi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes, in French you should put accents on caps although people usually don't do it.
you can check the rule of the "académie française" here:
http://www.academie-francaise.fr/langue/questions.html#accentuation
besos!
2007-06-07 23:43:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
Dans 90 % des cas, pas de majuscules avec accent.
2007-06-08 00:30:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can't!!! Keyboards in France are cursed!! We can write better French abroad than they can at home.. hehhehh...
2007-06-08 09:55:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... in french the accents aren't used when using caps lock
2007-06-08 01:53:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-06-07 23:36:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋