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And yet accents and diacritical marks are not widely used nor any longer exclusively "proper." You're fighting a losing battle. Language is changing underneath
by nkrisc 7y ago
And yet accents and diacritical marks are not widely used nor any longer exclusively "proper." You're fighting a losing battle. Language is changing underneath you, no matter how tightly you cling to it.
- zuppy 7y agoMy name contains diacritics. Are you proposing that I should change my name? Because if so, that’s pretty condescending.
- nkrisc 7y agoI can only think of no more than a few common English names that use diacritics, and most commonly drop them. Remember, this subthread spawned from discussing ASCII and English, not other languages. I think you'd have to pretty deliberately misinterpret my comment about accents being uncommon in English to somehow think I was suggesting you change your name.
- tuwtuwtuwtuw 7y agoWhat battle are you referring to? A large majority of the world's population is speaking languages containing characters outside of ASCII. ASCII has no relevant future.
- nkrisc 7y agoBut this subthread is specifically about ASCII and English. So you point, while valid and true, is not relevant to this specific subthread. I respectfully suggest you read my posts in this subthread because I don't believe you have. Instead, you appear to have taken my comment on accents in English completely out of context.
- tuwtuwtuwtuw 7y agoI did read the thread. It was about the irony that ASCII doesn't even cover English. Then you start to talk about a loosing battle. Still unclear which battle. Are you referring to the evolution of the English language into a language only using ASCII? Because if so that's completely off topic for the thread.