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Article #778Re: Multiple modifiers AND diacriticss for English
From: Isaac_K_Rabinovitch
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1987 17:31
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1987 17:31
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I think accents in English are "proper" only in words that are borrowed from continental languages. They gradually disappear as people forget that they are loan words (coordination was original French; coordinate comes from coordination by back formation). I think the heavy percentage of loan words in English accounts for its lack of accents. English speaker assume that the "correct" accent is the one from the original language, and it's impractical to remember the accenting conventions of all the languages English has borrowed from. The spelling inconsistencies are quite bad enough.
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