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		tracker1 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why English doesn't use accents Now try to get close to a billion people around the world with already varied cultures to follow the "new" rules of their native language.

int_19h 5 months ago [–]

I'm well aware that any kind of English spelling reform is non-viable for backwards compatibility reasons.

But that is a different argument from saying that English can't use diacritic-based orthography because the phonemic inventory is too complex.

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