Re: Dutch "ij"

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:

> Pablo David Flores wrote:
> > Which is
> > good, since most often than not they don't mark anything
> > VERY important...
>
> What about when only the presence or absence of a diacritic distinguish
> two words, like, se/sé?
The instances of that are few. That I remember: te/té, se/sé, tu/tú,
mi/mí, este-ese/éste-ése etc., de/dé (imp. of "dar"), ve (3s of "ver")
/vé (imp. of "ir"), and that's it. Most of those are conjugated forms
that don't appear in a dictionary, or grammatical function words.
I know many people who leave out accents completely in email, and
context (syntactic more than semantic) is enough to understand them.


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.angelfire.com/ego/pdf/ng/index.html