Very intuitive, but the page you link to doesn’t show very good examples. The acute accent is usually over the é, so that’s the key to use. The tilde usually goes over an ñ, so there you go. ¡Spanish is easy! Dollars and ¢ are easy. Saying ±10% is easy. Bullets • are easy. It all makes a bit of sense.
Actually, good point. On Windows/Unix it’s usually AltGr, but most American users aren’t familiar with that concept. AltGr is usually the rightmost Alt key on non-Mac keyboards.
You can setup AltGr on Windows without emulating a Mac keyboard, too. Just select US-International, then AltGr will give you some extra symbols.
archy typed with no caps at all by necessity his body was only big enough to operate one key at a time so everything involving a shift key was out of reach
except the one time he hit the shift lock key and GOT ALL CAPS
Well, I hope you learn to use it correctly. I believe the medial ſ follows a terminal s in the middle of a word, so your “ſucceſsfully” is unsuccessful.
The normal progression is two words, hyphenated words, single word… but as in this example there are many cases where two words (spaced or hyphenated) and one word don’t mean quite the same thing.
Other way around. Long s is initial and medial. Normal s is final position. English has nothing like that dimorphism of a letter any more. Being able to read and write in Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek gives plenty of practice with final versus medial forms.
I would have been so disappointed if no one had responded with “toujours gai”—thanks!
Nope, to reiterate Johanna, it’s correct. Normally, a double-s in the middle of a word would be ſſ, as in “claſſic” for “classic,” but the root here is “success,” which is “ſucceſs”+ “ful,” hence “ſucceſsful.” There’s a reason it’s called the “terminal s.”
For an example, see line 120 in Book I here (Page 6–not the literal sixth page, because there’s a bunch of prefaces in the book.) That’s an example of “ſucceſsful.” If you look at line 25, you’ll see an example of a medial double-s in the word “aſſert.”
It should be noted also that sometimes the conventions were not applied with full rigour. I would have thought that Mississippi should be rendered Miſſiſſippi using the conventions of the time, and that does seem that’s how it typically was. (That’s just one example from the time period, but all five examples I picked from the time period reflected the same spelling.)
