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Citizen #22:
Miestrâ Schivâ | > All those diacritics are nice to look at, but having to type them makes my fingers bleed... I have to type the html codes as my keyboard does not support anything that goes beyond the local umlauts and the kinky ß.
There are of course two sets of diacritics: the ones which indicate a difference in the pronunciation of the letter ("ö", "ä", "ç", "î", "û" etc) and thus which show a stress accent ("á", "ê", "ù" etc.). You can probably leave the stress accents out and the word will be exactly the same to type. Any diacritic which isn't on this list can be left out if your fingers hurt.
Before abolishing the stress accents altogether, though, we would have to reform the language to regularise where the stress in the word goes. I hear that the Royalists are discussing a proposal of that type, but they haven't got an agreed text then - which means, perhaps we could fill the gap. Tomás made a suggestion along these lines way back when, which I still think is a good one - I wonder what s:reu Asmoûr thinks?
In any case, the diactrics of any sort don't bother me thanks to my shiny Linux international keyboard. ;-)
Miestrâ Schivâ
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