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[wickedflea]

What's this?

`

Yeah, that. That character on the same key as the tilde (~). What is it? It's not an apostrophe. I've never used it. WTF is it?!?

Comments

[motherevol.livejournal.com]

Single opening quote.

[sarcasmosis.livejournal.com]

accent grave

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

What's this?

`

>>It's used in French over letters like e.

[goatsupreme.livejournal.com]

It could be an "accent grave" -- there's also the one that points in the opposite way to make an "accent aigu". C'est Francais!


BTW - I've been meaning to say for ages now that I love the Epstein icon.

[alicdeni83.livejournal.com]

It is the closest thing to an apostrophe on these godawful French keyboards.