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mgaunard
6 months ago
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Why English doesn't use accents
French barely has diacritics.
kergonath
6 months ago
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There aren’t that many different diacritics, but every other word has one. Just look at any text in French, it’s full of é, è, ê, and à.
mgaunard
6 months ago
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There are also â, ô, ù.
But still, it's nothing compared to other languages.
Tepix
6 months ago
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You mean Umlauts?
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