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mgaunard
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Why English doesn't use accents
French barely has diacritics.
kergonath
25 days ago
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There aren’t that many different diacritics, but every other word has one. Just look at any text in French, it’s full of é, è, ê, and à.
mgaunard
22 days ago
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There are also â, ô, ù.
But still, it's nothing compared to other languages.
Tepix
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You mean Umlauts?
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