Re: Yûomaewec: Example and evaluation

Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:

> En réponse à Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>:
>
> > The frequency of diacritics is an obstacle to this system's use, I
> > think.
>
> Only for monoglot English people, who never used diacritics. About
> everybody else does ;))) .
That's not really true -- I can think of countless languages that
don't use diacritics in their native orthography. Many native
languages of North America, in particular, actively strive not to
have diacritics when having orthographies devised since their
superstrate language, English, does not have them (much).

Personally, though, I like 'em.

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