Generation ñ (enya)

[Mark Mandel]

"Accent" is common enough in colloq. English for "diacritical mark".

Mark Mandel


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:14 PM, Michael Covarrubias <mcovarru at purdue.edu>wrote:

> that's a tilde over the n, not an accent.
>
> Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > Generation ñ (enya, for those like Google who
> > don't see accents) has made it to the NY Times.
> >
> > Oct. 23, 2008, page A17 (New England Edition),
> > col. 4. "McCain is Faltering Among Hispanic Voters", by Larry Rohter.
> >
> > "The Hispanic electorate [countryside] has grown
> > greatly since then [2004], its numbers swelled by
> > several million newly registered voters:
> > green-card holders who have recently become
> > American citizens and young bilingual and
> > bicultural Latinos who are sometimes referred to as "Generation ñ."
> >
> > (At least he didn't use the verb-of-the-month, "referenced [as]".)
> >
> > I don't think it's possible to separate
> > "Gen/generation ñ" from unaccented
> > "Gen/generation n" in Google.  But I did try
> > "Generation enya" in Google Groups, which yielded
> > only one real hit ever, from April 19, this
> > year.  (The other -- yes, there were only two --
> > is spurious, as it concatenates "Music for the
> > Jilted Generation" with Enya's album
> > "Enya".)  Google Web yields 96 hits for
> > "generation enya", and 274 for "gen enya", many
> > of which I suspect also refer to the singer.
> >
> > Joel
> >
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