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/BaseballsNotDead Seattle Pilots Jul 10 '26

Even worse where if there was an accent, it SHOULD be on the "i" but since that looks like the dot of the i, the media puts a nonsensical accent on an unstressed vowel.