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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Languages written without diacritics
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 18:21:32 GMT
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In article <CtgteMj030n@sktb.demon.co.uk>,
Paul L. Allen <pla@sktb.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <E1Fy79.GrH@midway.uchicago.edu>
>    deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) writes:

>> If you're going to disqualify English for
>> anything, let it be for the acute accents on French borrowings.  Here the
>> usage is much more standardised and widespread.
>
>Why not disqualify English for the use, in poety, of the grave accent on
>some words ending -ed to indicate pronunciation?

	Because it's not standard.  Not only is it possible to write
English without it, it's perfectly acceptable.  By contrast, while it's
possible to write German in ASCII (using <vowel + e> in place of <vowel +
umlaut> and so forth), this is considered a kludge to be avoided if at all
possible. 
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