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If you were writing something formal for work, and were told to just get rid of essential characters or punctuation in your working language and adopt those of
by version_five 5y ago
If you were writing something formal for work, and were told to just get rid of essential characters or punctuation in your working language and adopt those of another language, do you think your audience would be OK with that?
- baby 5y agoI'm not talking about adopting those of another language, I'm talking about L’Académie française changing the rules of the language, like they've done multiple times to simplify the language[1]. Do you find all these extra accents confusing? Most French people do as well, and most people do not use them correctly anyway (even in writing). It's not just French people, my SO is Romanian and they have the same issue and will often omit their special characters when writing. [1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifications_orthographiques_du_fran%C3%A7ais_en_1990 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifications_orthographiques...
- version_five 5y agoFair enough, I had interpreted you post as English / US centric, "why can't they just use our alphabet" but that was my mistake, sorry. FWIW, my wife (French) is a BÉPO enthusiast - my own french is not good enough to have an opinion but I just asked her (without any context) if she has any trouble with typeing accents, and she said "No, because I use a BÉPO keyboard".