#diacritics

[terrariaabigail]

Hot take English should have diacritic markers

For example:

Read - present tense of ‘to read’

Réad - past tense of ‘to read’

Envelop - to surround

Ènvelope - paper containing a letter

Moral - ethically correct; a lesson

Morále - energy, happiness

Etc etc

Not only does it help with homophones but it could also make orthography slightly easier since we could more easily distinguish vowel sounds

It’d also be great for English learners since it’d help with pronunciation but it also wouldn’t harm people who already speak the language too much since there wouldn’t be any major spelling reform, just putting an acute (á) or grave (à) accent on some letters. Maybe we could even do it for certain consonants that have multiple sounds (I.e using the cedilla/ç like in French)

[sillylotrpolls]

Many names in Tolkien's works have diacritical marks, like ë and ú. How do you usually handle this when writing about Tolkien's characters?

I don't bother with the marks at all (ex: I write Lúthien's name as Luthien)

I google the name and copy-paste to get the marks

My keyboard is specifically set up to make it easy to use diacritical marks

I've memorized the shortcuts to add marks to letters

I avoid mentioning Tolkien characters that have complicated names

I avoid mentioning Tolkien characters entirely

I use a translation of their names that avoids the issue (ex: エオウィン for Éowyn)

Other (specify in notes)

Voting ended onDec 6, 2023

[thatpollguy]

How much of the International Phonetic Alphabet do you know?

-I know all of the letters and diacritics

-I know most of the letters and diacritics

-I know some of the letters and diacritics

-I know a few of the letters and diacritics

-I know none of the letters and diacritics

Thanks to @floydbolsonenjoyer for the great poll idea! I would never have thought of this one, so I appreciate the new topic :-)

How much of the International Phonetic Alphabet do you know?

I know all of the letters and diacritics

I know most of the letters and diacritics

I know some of the letters and diacritics

I know a few of the letters and diacritics

I know none of the letters and diacritics

I don't know what the International Phonetic Alphabet is

Voting ended onJan 8

[vikinglanguage]

everyone wake up, new smiley just dropped

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[ashleyrowanthewriter]

I've found these old font stencils and I'm mesmerised. Nowhere before have I seen a P with an umlaut.

[liskantope]

Every since I was a little kid, it's bothered me that no one is two separate words, I think out of an instinctual feeling that it should be a pronoun classed along with nobody and everyone, which are single words. But, as soon occurred to me, writing it as one word noone put two O's together and would be parsed as a double-O pronounced /u/.

On the other hand, I was reflecting when I woke up this morning on how we've run into this problem before with double-O's (think cooperation or the starker abbreviation coop, or for a milder variant involving E's, think reelect). Now historically (although it's mostly fallen out of practice quite recently) we would put a diaeresis (two dots) over one of the O's to indicate that it should be separated from the other, as in the spelling coöperation. (This is, I believe, interestingly one of the only uses of diacritics in the entire history of the English language, along with some obscure spellings of words like belovèd and diacritics occasionally kept in borrowings like piñata.)

Anyway, I'm all in favor of bringing back the diaeresis and turning no one into a single pronoun noöne (or nöone?); who's with me?

[aikoiya]

LoZ: TotK - Gerudo Language: Diacritic & Diagraphic Characters

Gerudo Language Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, & Part 7.

GeruLang: Diacritic & Diagraphic Characters

Ya'll, I may well have lost my absolute mind.

I have spent more time than is probably necessary creating a Gerudo numerical system & even a system of diacritics.

Send help.

Anyone who studies languages & their corresponding lexicons, can ya'll tell me if there's any merit to this stuff I made or if I'm just crazy & obsessed?

Also, for "ā," "é," & "ī," I'm thinking that the 2 different characters are differentiated by what's considered formal/proper & what's informal/casual. Perhaps the ones that are based on the original character, but upside down are considered formal, but the ones that are right-side up are informal? Because the informal ones are usually done that way due to muscle memory; the hand reacting the way that it would when writing the original character before the writer realizes it & then tacking on the accent so that the intention of the character is clear.

I've also created some digraphic characters.

Thanks.

I've actually made a font using all this, so if ya'll want it, just say so.

LoZ Cultural Masterlist 2

[eastern-lights]

There's nothing that makes me feel more patriotic than the fact that latin alphabet with czech diacritics is so phonetically precise and consistent that you don't even need the IPA most times.

Seriously, if Jan Hus was alive, I could give him a big ol' sloppy kiss.