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That you can do transliterations doesn't make it a good idea. > French (accents can be dropped) What? No! See for example https://french.stackexchange.com/a/2
by klez 9y ago
That you can do transliterations doesn't make it a good idea.
> French (accents can be dropped)
What? No! See for example https://french.stackexchange.com/a/24410 https://french.stackexchange.com/a/24410
- bonzini 9y agoSurely it is incorrect to drop them, but the result is still intelligible. Same for the "hacek" and accent (carka) in Czech for example. In Italian, however, accents are only on the last letter of a word so they are usually replaced with apostrophes if your keyboard lacks them (in fact even on an Italian keyboard È is usually typed as E'; most word processors autocorrect it).
- emodendroket 9y agoYes, but it is equally true that it is intelligible if you only have letters in one case and no punctuation. Nevertheless, most of us would not consider this acceptable.
- kolpa 9y agoEnglish has non-homophobic homonyms too. We just carry on regardless.
- klez 9y agoI guess you meant homophonic. Anyway, for example "a" and "à" are homophones. As are "la" and "là". A nice one is "chasse"/"châsse". Both are pronounced \ʃas\ but the first one means "hunt", the latter one means "reliquary".
- emodendroket 9y agoThere's no real justification for "C," sinse every instanse of it kan be replased with S or K. Nevertheless, I don't think you would konsent to use a kharakter set that didn't inklude it.