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> It may be partially that English is really foreign for us, while it's pretty close linguistically to Swedish, both being Germanic. That wouldn't explain it,
by Vinnl 7y ago
> It may be partially that English is really foreign for us, while it's pretty close linguistically to Swedish, both being Germanic.
That wouldn't explain it, because we do the same in Dutch: just leave off the diacritics. Diacritics are pretty rare in Dutch, though.
- alkonaut 7y agoYeah in swedish leaving them off isn't working. The diacritics aren't for accentuation, they are distinct letters. An ö is as different from o as u and e are.
- bonoboTP 7y agoSame in Hungarian. One funny example is "főkábel" (fő+kábel, main cable) vs. "fókabél" (fóka+bél, seal intestine). Still, the intended meaning is almost always easy to guess. Hungarian is also redundant enough that you can even replace all vowels with just one and still be understandable. Most of the meaning is carried by the consonants. E.g. "Szia én vagyok Péter, hogy vagy?" -> Szii, in vigyik Pitir, higy vigy. (sounds obviously wrong, but very understandable) Retaining the vowels but collapsing all consonants to one would be more destructive to the meaning.
- SiempreViernes 7y agoUh, what do you mean? Leaving them off and letting the reader guess the intended word works pretty well in practice and is what many organisations in Sweden resorted to when getting a domain name (ex: riksgälden, åhlens, företagarna).
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoAnd 1337-speak was never readable to anyone in English, since numb3rs ar3 d1st1nc7 fr0m l3773r5.
- krageon 7y agoIt works fine in practice, even if pedantic people will always correct you when you use a instead of å.