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Yeah that's a bizarre (or non-) example for a point that might be otherwise sound. Accents aigu et grave sound completely different, and stand in for a variety
by OJFord 2y ago
Yeah that's a bizarre (or non-) example for a point that might be otherwise sound.
Accents aigu et grave sound completely different, and stand in for a variety of disambiguating spellings you might use (including the grave even for non loanwords: 'bless-id' vs 'blesst', for example) you could never confuse the pronunciation, they serve the opposite purpose.
In fact that example makes it seem more like a point about spelling, don't worry about writing the wrong accent. (Yeah, people will figure it out I'm sure; in English too 'bless-ayed' is nonsense, so the presence of any accent would look like 'bless-id' was intended.)