Today is Robert Buckman's inaugural column on StinkyJournalism. Buckman,Ph,D., is an associate professor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a member the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Committee.
Robert Buckman informs StinkyJournalism readers that "failure to use the correct character can have disastrous consequences." And no, he's not exaggerating.
Buckman writes: "I refer to the tilde, aka, 'the little squiggly thing over the 'n' in Spanish. In fact, the 'ñ' is a separate character in the Spanish alphabet, with a distinct pronunciation, and it';s one that English-language print and broadcast journalists would do well to use correctly."
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