#diacritic — Public Fediverse posts
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“How is that /ɲ/-sound spelled again?”
“I guess it depends. Is it Spanish or Portuguese?”
“It's ‘exotic’.”
“Oh, then you can spell it however you like!”#diacritic #diacritics #DiacriticalConfusion #FaxeKondiñho #TypographyInTheWild
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#TFW you have to look for #diacritical marks to try to determine if something is #Norwegian or rot-13...
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What's the difference between a Boomer and an elder GenXer like me? I mean, I admit it, sometimes it's hard to tell.
Usually neither one of us can be arsed to switch to a foreign keyboard when we need a letter with a diacritic, if we even know how. However:
The boomer will just type a similar letter without the diacritic, because fuck y'all. Happy new asshole, Jose!
On the other hand, GenX knows how to Google "jose" and copypasta "José".
Feliz año nuevo!
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What excites me most about Aljaž Škorjanec’s return to Strictly Come Dancing is that we get to see an accented capital letter in a BBC headline.
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Such issues always remind me of this Typotheque blog post by Peter Biľak:
https://www.typotheque.com/articles/lcaron
#LCaron #Caron #CaronDiacritic #diacritics #diacritic #apostrophe
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@riley @mcc
This is fascinating!I've been studying #Czech, which shares a ton of #phonemes and #vocabulary with other #Slavic languages, but is written with a Latin-based character set (I say "Latin-based" because Czech uses an assortment of #diacritic marks as #pronunciation modifiers on an otherwise standard #Latin character set).
On several occasions, I've come across a #Russian or #Ukrainian word written in its native #Cyrillic script followed by a #phonetic pronunciation guide written in Latin characters, and consequently recognized the word as one that is shared with Czech. Those moments of recognition are just pure #linguistic glee.
