According to the main media in Spain, the plenary session of the RAE agreed on a new wording that will be included in the next Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts (DPD).
This is the discussion that has been going on for more than 10 years, about the word “solo”, which since 2010 stopped being accentuated in all cases. This arrangement was heavily criticized by writers, novelists, and pundits.
Finally, the rule is as follows: “It is mandatory to write the adverb without a tilde only in contexts where its use does not entail a risk of ambiguity and it is optional to mark the adverb only in contexts where, in the opinion of the writer, its use entails a risk of ambiguity. This paragraph does not imply a change of norm.
However, the RAE did not want to admit that it was a rectification and argued that it is only a modification of the text, so that the norm is clearer.
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