Apostrophe, or Acute Accent?

by Ziller on Aug 6, 2008 12:49 PM PDT Comment 44 comments

Is it Donté Greene? Or Donte' Greene?

misterbrister raises the question. The NBA goes with the é. Syracuse has used an apostrophe. ESPN remains agnostic.

Donté/Donte' was born in Munich, and lived in Europe for the first three years of his life. That would hint toward the acute accent, though it is far from definitive.

If it is, in fact, an acute accent, should we adopt its usage? If so, then we must provide equal diacritical ferver in Francisco García's name ... something the NBA does not offer but The Bee sometimes enforces.

We hope to have this serious matter resolved soon.

UPDATE: Reader Matt chimes in via email:

I'm not 100 percent sure, but I can tell you that some computer programs automatically turn an e' into an e with an accent over it. I bet good money that's what happened and no one bothered to check on it. Considering the T-shirts that the folks at Syracuse had made saying Don'te Leave, you can bet that it's an apostrophe. College kids don't mess that stuff up...

UPDATE #2: From TrueHoop's Henry Abbott:

That character in Donte Greene's name that touched it all off is not an apostrophe, as it may appear sometimes online. It's an accent. And the reason a lot of websites don't use it is because accents, in html, can get squirrely. For instance, they can appear as apostrophes.

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I hope its an apostrophe

I don’t know how to type one of those e’s with the accent mark. Hell, I don’t even know where to find that character map program anymore.

Never forget: I am a complete idiot

by Exhibit G on Aug 6, 2008 1:12 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I hope it's the exact opposite

So someone can show me how to do it. (I just think it’s cooler than the aposotrophe is over the top of the “e”, but that’s me.)

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on Aug 6, 2008 1:15 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Alt-0233 will do the trick.

by Ziller on Aug 6, 2008 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

DontAlt-0233 Greene?

Didn’t work . . . I don’t think that’s right.

Sorry, bad joké.

by smgmatt on Aug 6, 2008 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs

Nice one

Never forget: I am a complete idiot

by Exhibit G on Aug 6, 2008 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Strange

Doesn’t work for me. Could be because my keyboard has Korean letters on it too. So I can always write 단테 그린(Danteh Guleen).

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 6, 2008 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well that's funny

I viewed the page source and it turns out I can just type – & eacute; without the space after the &. Donté Greene

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 6, 2008 3:23 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

On a Mac

You press Option-e then press e again. You can actually use the Option-e for any vowel. áéíóú

by The Ghost of Dick Bavetta on Aug 6, 2008 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nickname

We need to think up a nickname fast, because I’m not remembering Alt-0233 all the damn time. I vote for Big Greene Monster.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I've already decided to call him

Extra E. At least until something better comes along.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 6, 2008 4:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Works for me

Not a great ring to it, but that’ll work for now.

by Carl on Aug 6, 2008 4:31 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Decided? Decided!?!?!

Can we refer to Greene from now on as "The extra E"… and all adjectives used to describe him have to start with an e – he’s not tall, he’s elongated, he’s not a good shooter, he’s an excellent shooter, his talents not going to increase rapidly, it’ll increase exponentially.
Now I can put my pink lace bra and panties back on. – Kfan in Korea

by iashwash on Jul 30, 2008 2:00 AM EDT reply 1 recs

From the little less zany thread. ‘Spect da sourcee.

Plus, now I managed to put my sigline twice in one post :-)

Now I can put my pink lace bra and panties back on. - Kfan in Korea

by iashwash on Aug 6, 2008 5:35 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well

I decided that I was going to call him that. I didn’t invent the name, nor did I claim to have invented it. Besides “Extra E” is so much better than “The extra E”.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 6, 2008 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

hahaha

Please, I wasn’t being serious. Also, congratulations, the sig line is gone. Though, agreed, Extra E is ta’n bueno.
Da ex E. Da EE. Deee.
Ha, I like that – Deee. Short for da extra e with an extra e thrown in.

Donte? Donte'! Donté?!?!
'spect da 'xtra E'

by iashwash on Aug 6, 2008 10:06 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I thought you were joking

and I was just kidding about Extra E being better, though it is.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 7, 2008 2:32 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

also, I'm sorry

I thought the sig lines were dynamically loaded, so that when I changed my line, it’d change in all the posts. Apparently that’s not the case. Didn’t mean for those suckers to last forever. My bad.

Donte? Donte'! Donté?!?!
'spect da 'xtra E'

by iashwash on Aug 6, 2008 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

That's OK,

because Kfan didn’t think his original post was going to last forever either.

What can I say? It was a giddy couple of days for many Kings fans. Not on the par of the giddiness of, ahem, others

at least I wasn’t out kissing strangers in the street over the trade…or wearing opposite gendered lingerie.

Yeah, I am never going to google the image that belongs with the previous sentence.

But it was a giddy couple of hours there. They may come back to bite us in the butt next year, but I’d nearly bet my house (and I’m not a gambler) that the following year will make us all sigh with relief, just like Indiana’s fans are doing right now.

I hope I’m wrong, but that’s not up to me, it’s up to Bill.

The best friend of out of the country sports fans is MyP2p.eu. Go to the forums for daily listing of streams. -Kfan

by KK on Aug 6, 2008 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Hah

No worries. I wouldn’t have posted it, if reading it was going to bother me. And it was good fun there for a few days.

Ball movement ... is like jogging for most people: They do it occasionally, and it makes them happy. Then they go back to not doing it. - Henry Abbott

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 7, 2008 2:34 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can his nickname be Alt-0233?

Never forget: I am a complete idiot

by Exhibit G on Aug 6, 2008 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Seconded

I think the real tragedy is that he cannot have 0233 as his jersey number.

by smgmatt on Aug 6, 2008 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

3rd

Alt0233.

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by section214 on Aug 6, 2008 6:55 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Donté. Donté. Donté. Donté.

sorry. practicing.

Donté.

by beevenator on Aug 6, 2008 2:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Dontê?

by beevenator on Aug 6, 2008 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Dontë.

by beevenator on Aug 6, 2008 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I was a C-student in German in High School

I’m pretty sure that this is not the correct usage of an umlaut.

Never forget: I am a complete idiot

by Exhibit G on Aug 6, 2008 3:48 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

if a spanish word ends in a vowel, n, or s, the natural accent is on the second to last syllable so an accent on Garcia’s “i” would not be necessary.

by passionforPERPS on Aug 6, 2008 4:19 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Actually, it would

Because the ia combination is a dipthong, with each vowel being pronounced separately rather than forming one singular vowel sound.

Without the accent, ia in Spanish is pronounced YA.

With the accent, it’s pronounced EEya.

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 6:05 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Correcto

by eduardo_m7 on Aug 6, 2008 6:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Gracias.

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 6, 2008 6:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

thank you, i did not realize

by passionforPERPS on Aug 7, 2008 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

No problem

I edit, so I’m kind of a grammar queen. Which is better than being a drama queen, but the tiara is smaller.

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 7, 2008 3:25 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

I a wait tables

and i love correcting the grammar of my patrons, but i guess my spanish was never that great and hasnt been used in some time so i probably shouldnt be giving out advice(especially to a group so large…more people to call you out lol)

by passionforPERPS on Aug 8, 2008 12:15 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

It wasn't a call-out

Just a correction.

And believe me, lots of people have corrected me in the past, so no big deal.

Let's go home.-Kevin Martin

by LeaguePassAddict on Aug 8, 2008 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

There's a much easier way to type the accent mark

Kevin Martin, line 1 holding for you. Your destiny is calling. - Section214

by vfettke on Aug 6, 2008 6:37 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

I'm an idiot, that shouldn't have posted

the way it is done is by holding ctrl then pressing the apostrophe key then e, or whatever letter you want. but it apparently doesn’t work in a web browser, which is why i wasn’t going to post this.

Kevin Martin, line 1 holding for you. Your destiny is calling. - Section214

by vfettke on Aug 6, 2008 6:40 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well...

This certainly matches the reasoning found in Update #2 from TrueHoop.

by smgmatt on Aug 6, 2008 8:59 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just saw this thread...

But I kinda feel like a big deal. You can call me Místerbríster from now on…

Hope I didn't create a monster with this whole accent business, I was just meaning to shed a little light on the subject.

by misterbrister on Aug 7, 2008 6:56 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

by Red Reign on Aug 8, 2008 1:02 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

by Kfan in Korea on Aug 8, 2008 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

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