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Is the acute a trivial matter in French?
I find the reaction here to this very interesting. You continue to call it what you wish, I’ve already linked to a breakdown of why the term is incorrectly used and especially in the context of political conversations.
Murakami-
To be clear though is it Eire that’s the issue or is Éire also taboo.
The former I can understand as the lack of a thingy gives the word a different meaning but if Éire is also taboo then that I still don’t get as outside blatant misuse by the far right, everyone else is surely trying not to offend by using the local lingo over English.
Ramsaye
Just to further this trivial point. This news article is from the Irish Times and they seem to have the knack of locating E acute. They are also an Irish newspaper and yet, they spell Saor Eire (I don’t know how to put the acute on the E) consistently without the acute.
As I said, the acute seems like a trivial matter and I am old and very well aware of the sensibilities on both sides of the border.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-sudden-rise-and-rapid-fall-of-saor-eire-1.1062394