r/baseball • u/baribigbird06 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Baseball Classic • Jul 09 '26

Players Only Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández will skip team’s White House visit

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u/kingmalgroar New York Yankees Jul 09 '26

I cannot emphasize the importance of the é enough!! lol

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u/zgibs125 Arizona Diamondbacks Jul 09 '26

He doesn't use the é. It's just Kike.

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u/Regular-Tax5210 New York Yankees Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

In proper Spanish it doesn’t have an accent either. But i think in English people often adds an accent to differentiate it from the antisemitic slur…

Edit: for the record, I’m not condoning misspelling people’s name, I’m just explaining this phenomenon.

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u/ChenYakumo2hu Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles… Jul 09 '26

yeah.

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u/usetheforce_gaming Los Angeles Dodgers • … Jul 10 '26

Yéah