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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by aylons on Thursday May 12, 2016 @07:41PM (#11687598)
No diacritics, and generous use of apostrophes.
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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by yohoho22 on Friday May 13, 2016 @12:54AM (#11688717)
> No diacritics

An understandably naïve view of things whose errancy could easily be corrected through your coöperative perusal of The New Yorker.

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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by vacri on Friday May 13, 2016 @09:28AM (#11690271)
To be fair, the original question was how to recognise English text, not how to recognise the archaic microcosm of English text that resides between the covers of The New Yorker.
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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by eru on Friday May 13, 2016 @07:59AM (#11689859)
Wouldn't it be cöoperative?
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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by tremon on Friday May 13, 2016 @08:26AM (#11689968)
It wouldn't be. The goal is to separate the second o from the first, not to separate the o from the c:

The diaeresis indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter that precedes it [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Diae...

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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by eru on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:43AM (#11694808)
Oh, true. Naive should have tipped me off.
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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by dalke on Friday May 13, 2016 @07:09AM (#11689693)
That guideline would likely classify Xhosa as English. See https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphepha_Elingundoqo , which has no diacritics and three apostrophes.
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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by vacri on Friday May 13, 2016 @09:31AM (#11690289)
Throw in "Mid-word capitals are (almost completely) absent in English".
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