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Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@hidden.email> wrote:
Muke Tever wrote:Modern convention is to eschew diacritics altogether, except sometimes the diaeresis. In textbooks and dictionaries you will find breves and macrons. In older books you may find macrons spelled as acutes, graves, and circumflexes. Since for the most part all the diacritics only serve to disambiguate, you won't miss much if you don't bother to learn them.You will miss a lot in sound changes, since short and long vowels often change differently
True. I was only thinking as far as reading and writing is concerned, not other useful purposes. Still, it's possible to know which vowels are long without worrying how they're written... More so if you know where the accent is, etc. *Muke! -- website: http://frath.net/ LiveJournal: http://kohath.livejournal.com/ deviantArt: http://kohath.deviantart.com/ FrathWiki, a conlang and conculture wiki: http://wiki.frath.net/