[Forum] resume accent problem/good bye

My CMS membership expires today (at least temporarily), so I thought I would say good bye and thank you to everyone. I also wanted to report that some people, including real HR people, are using the word resume without accent marks. I am wondering whether that word is supposed to be an exception

[Forum] RE: Unfamiliar Common German Nouns

I'd cap them because that's what's correct in German, and not doing so might annoy readers who understand German. If you were to include French words, you'd put the correct accents on them (I hope), even though English doesn't often use accents.

[Forum] RE: Omitting diacritical marks in non-English proper names

Just saw this as I was looking around and thought I'd add my input on French names. While French requires accents on lowercase letters, it is acceptable to omit them on caps. So if someone left accents off caps, I might let it go if it was consistent. But it would bug me. So ultimately I agree that

[Forum] Follow-up question

Thanks for your reply. I offered "Mexico" just as an example of the far end of the continuum. If a place name is "perfectly good" in English it's easy to conclude that accents are not needed. But moving in from the far extreme and into more complicated territory would this apply as well -- in schola

[Forum] RE: American spelling?

Oh, I know there are ways, but most Americans don't know that, and the original question was whether it is common for them to leave out the accent. I'm just guessing that for that reason they'd probably leave it out. In the olden days of my youth, we never put in accents. Going to google books

[Forum] Omitting diacritical marks in non-English proper names

What is best practice regarding the omission of diacritical marks in the rendering of non-English proper names in scholarly articles? Thus, does Mexico have to be rendered with the 'e' acute accented? Does Zizek have to be typeset with the caron (hacek)? There's obviously a continuum between omittin

[Forum] RE: Unfamiliar Common German Nouns

You would include accents because they help identify the word. Without the accents, it could be a different word. Capping is a different issue. This is an English text, for English readers, where capitalizing the word makes a very specific point which will be wrong when applied to these German wo

[Forum] Spanish words & accents in English

In deciding whether or not to use the accents in this particular situation, I'd take one step back. Are you using the accent in the word [i]México[/i], which is accented in Spanish? Obviously, the name of that country is written without the accent in most English-language texts. If you're dropping t

[Forum] RE: Shipping company name

Hi Crosstees! Is the circumflex there even over a capital I? I've seen where accents are sometimes dropped in that case.

[Forum] RE: The Drama of Wine

Thank you so much! Amazon claims they have a copy that'll be here by Saturday. This looks much closer to what I need than what I was finding, and it has "proper accents and capitalization"—huzzahs all around!