"το γράμμα π"

Translation:The letter p

August 30, 2016

15 Comments

piguy3

I guess you could call me a fan ;)

August 30, 2016

jaye16

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Writing in Greek or Greeklish (Greek with Latin characters)

https://www.duolingo.com/comment/17556409

September 13, 2016

Kyukiou

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1647

Can someone explain which accent mark is on the letter a? I have tried typing "γράμμα" using a custom Polytechnic keyboard and I'm shifting+a to make that. and I still get it 'incorrect'. :( Maybe my eyes are really bad and I can't tell it apart.

September 1, 2016

piguy3

I was using this one: http://gate2home.com/Greek-Keyboard and don't recall any problems. But I know some parts of the Duolingo machinery are super clunky on things that aren't so different (the nikud in Hebrew and some things in Russian transliteration are two examples I know).

Unicode has both 03AC for alpha w/ tonos and the possibility of plain alpha + combining acute accent (Unicode 0301). Looking at these in even a huge font in Word, they seem identical (and to the character you posted, too). Any modern software should handle them identically by running the appropriate checks on the text input string to reconcile the alternate ways of entering what appears as the same character, but that's no guarantee that it actually will.

September 1, 2016

Kyukiou

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1647

Is the accent mark on top of the a in γράμμα an acute symbol? I guess that's what I was meaning to say.--- EDIT: If I knew which diacritics symbol it was I could figure it out from there. The diacritics are so hard to see on my screen.

September 1, 2016

piguy3