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Restricting yourself to the basic Latin alphabet is a nice feature and digraphs work fine IMO. You could easily solve the this/thin problem by spelling them "dh
by geowwy 8y ago
Restricting yourself to the basic Latin alphabet is a nice feature and digraphs work fine IMO. You could easily solve the this/thin problem by spelling them "dhis" and "thin".
- oblio 8y agoYeah, totally doable. In Romanian we have a few extra letters but in apps that don't have support for them people just use digraphs: ș is sh, ț is tz (same sounds as I'm English for those digraphs). There's 2 vowels for which unfortunately there's no "standard" digraph, but even those should be doable, something like ă being aw and î being iw (we'd abolish the duplicate letter â, it's a waste of space, anyway, IMO). Seems like a decent approach for the English alphabet improvements.
- jkxyz 8y agoIt seems pretty common to just type the extra letters in Romanian as their most visually similar Latin character. I've never seen anyone writing Romanian with digraphs when they're sending text messages, for example. "Bună dimineața" just becomes "buna dimineata". As someone learning Romanian, it makes it a challenge - I still learn the word and its pronunciation. Conversely, in German, digraphs seem to be commonly used and understood.
- oblio 8y agoSh and tz are used, but considered "uncool". For ă, â, î everyone just uses a and i. We're just less orderly than the Germans :p