The norm had generated a linguistic crack.
It was at the precise moment that the Royal Spanish Academy decided to "steal" the accent from the adverb
"only"
, which has now recovered it thanks to a belated but finally rectification by the governing body of the Spanish language.
The adverb "only" is the one that is equivalent to "only" and from now on it will be able to take tilde again.
That is to say,
it will be optional
, like the demonstrative pronouns "this", "that" and that", with their feminine and plural, which had also been victims of pruning.
The option, at least, is something more than the prohibition.
The RAE indicated that the use of the tilde will be left to the consideration of the user of the language when he considers that in his opinion there is a risk of ambiguity.
This ambiguity occurs when it only works as an adjective derived from loneliness.
Pronouns with tilde also stop carrying it when they accompany a noun.
This novelty was claimed for years by academics and writers.
There were cases of exams in which the use of the tilde subtracted a grade because it used to depend on the criteria of the teacher or the examiner.
The rule on these words changed
12 years ago
, when the academy introduced the general recommendation not to check these words.
Authors such as Mario Vargas Llosa, Javier Marías or Pere Gimferrer continued to accentuate the adverb and it was criticized that the measure generated confusion.
The academic and writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte has highlighted to the EFE agency his satisfaction with this novelty and has indicated that all the academics have agreed to introduce this formulation, since it does not destroy the initial formulation but allows a more reasonable use of the tilde in these cases, since it is the author of the text who decides whether or not to use it.
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