What is "carne" in the context below?

Question

In a Spanish picture books for kids titled "Lola en la Biblioteca" it says "Lola no se olvida de su carne." The e in carne has a dash on top on the e totally horizontal, not like an accent. What is this word? No kid would be taking "meat" to the library.

Answer 1

carne = meat

carné = card / pass / license

Different stress, different meaning.

• Del fr. carnet (D R A E) - samdie Dec 13, 2010

Answer 2

library card

Answer 3

If there's no erratum in the book, it anyway could make sense. Carne also means flesh, particularly, in such occasion, flesh of any fruit. If you don't like idea of little girl having some proteins in the library you possibly would like to apply idea of vegetarian girl eating some mashed apple or etc.

• I think that "carné de biblioteca" (library card) is more likely in a library than a piece of meat. - lazarus1907 Dec 13, 2010

Answer 4

a dash on top on the e totally horizontal

Some languages (e.g. Latin) are written with a macron (horizontal line) over certain vowels to indicate that they are "long". Spanish is not one of them. There is but one diacritical mark for stress in Spanish and it ascends from left to right. English (because of the influence of French) calls this an "acute accent" (as distinct from the the grave accent [which is used in French but not in Spanish]).

In some type fonts it may appear to be (or even, be) really horizontal but that's a defect of the typeface.

For more acute accent