Re: German+Hungarian question

> 
> I'm still curious about Hungarian...


My guess is that they just omit the diacritics entirely, e.g. "köszönöm"
probably just becomes "koszonom". It couldn't cause that much trouble
for native users, and there will always be clues as to what the missing
diacritics are from vowel harmony.

It's what happens in Polish, which is possibly even more reliant on 
funny letters. In practice, even for me, a learner, it's not hard to 
understand
Polish written entirely in ASCII.

In any case, the German substitution of following "e" for umlaut seems
to be peculiar among writing systems that I know of, and I guess it
only arose because German words are occasionally written in this
fashion even when umlauts are available, by native users. So the
method is well known among Germans. 

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