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rodrigodlu | 4 months ago

I think it's quite the opposite, diacritics teach me how to speak a language that I'm not native.

Portuguese don't use as many as Romanian, but they are very useful. After all what's the difference between avó and avô and just avo?

We don't use in very informal settings, like Whatsapp chat, because a native reader can infer from the context. And that's how English without them works, right?

Actually I wanted the English language to have some, so the tiny differences in certain constructions would be more obvious.

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simiones|4 months ago

Yes, diacritics are very helpful if you want to understand the language. But they aren't any help if you're trying to read a travel journal about a place whose language you neither speak nor want to learn, which will be the case for the vast majority of the target audience for this article - spelling the names of places with or without diacritics will not improve the reader's pronunciation.