Some of the many species Jeffrey Combs has evolved into:

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      26 days ago

      So is it a red flag, then, that my husband did not take my last name? And if it’s a gay couple, which one is complaining?

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      I’m more surprised that he took the time to use an accent mark. Either a copy-paste to make sure he got it right, or lots of extra time changing his keyboard back and forth.

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        If they’re not on their phone (which they probably are as others have pointed out), maybe they’re just a Pokémon fan. I memorized the keyboard combo for the accented “é” about 25 years ago because of this. (Alt+130)

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          I never interacted with Pokemon (i think I was a few years too old for it) - but I used to have to write a lot of international names down for work related reasons, and therefore eventually had all the accented letter win-alt-key codes memorised - though I can’t really remember them all now (I’ve used Linux only for about 15 years).

          I don’t think I’d remember many now - for example, I was convinced é was ALT+0233, but I could easily be mixing it up with one of the others.

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          Most people use twitter on their phone. I tend to assume everyone on twitter is on a phone. The vertical screenshots give it away.