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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At least in gnu/Linux

I only use Linux. Because Stallman doesn't need to ride coattails to be a somebody.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

How are you not using GNU stack with your Linux kernel?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I didn’t know about that. I’ll have to give it a try, I hate trying to write Portuguese on my PC because I can’t use the accents