al-harb. friends, be with me in two of the most fatal enemies of humanity are, first, Word's spell-checker, and then following it very closely, the typeface Comic Sans . Seriously, how bad has made the Comic Sans ...
Even this being true, there is something far more damaging, a scourge that degrades the human race and extinction of which is to slow and painful, and I mean nothing nothing less than the labels without accents . Because yes, because it ended and warm cloths and good words declarémosle war on ignorance prosodic, we carry with us a permanent marker and shamelessly amend the signs to find our way. Are not filled our streets aesthetic centers or English academies ? Did you not eyes to see him bleed? Is not a kitten dies every accent lost? Do not suffer the Virgin? 
he opened fire Lynne Truss few years ago. This good lady, a good woman, he screamed to the sky to see that they had not put the apostrophe at the horrendous movie title Two Weeks' Notice . It was the straw that broke the glass of his patience was launched wildly into the streets of London and, pen in hand, corrected with messianic fervor any sign that was within reach. The book I wrote below about orthotypography, Eats, Shoots and Leaves (without the comma: eats shoots and leaves, with the comma: eats, shoots and leaves ), is a classic .
Well, friends, in the English speaking world war has begun. On 23 June this year, a Basque who lives in Mexico, called Paul Zulaica , he inflated the fumes and became a hurricane. Decided to print cards with a tilde and began to glue them on posters misspelled Mexico City to, after, photograph the results and upload the image to your blog : Lost Accents: Accent rehabilitation program in public . Today, they are legion hordes of English-speaking, with unusual fury corrective combing the streets of Spain, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in search of badly written signs. After the first fines in Mexico City have come to recognize officially work for its "educational value, peaceful and constructive." Have appeared in newspapers worldwide and the movement grows unabated. Friends, weeping with emotion. Can such happiness, Toto? I do not know you, but I'll give it eight thousand accents of cardboard and pull!, tildetón who raised you. This is war ...
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PD: Please put no emphasis on the word you . And if you call Llorente, LL escribáis not Orent . Please I ask it. Do it for him:
PPD: Just for fun, copy the spelling of the RAE: Capitals accents if their share according to given rules. Examples: Africa, PERU, Orgiva, BOGOTA. The Academy has never set a rule to the contrary. 
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