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mgaunard
11 months ago
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Why English doesn't use accents
French barely has diacritics.
kergonath
11 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
11 months ago
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There are also â, ô, ù.
But still, it's nothing compared to other languages.
Tepix
11 months ago
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You mean Umlauts?
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