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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by enriquto on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:46PM (#18689386)
when I used esperanto on IRC (many years ago), people wrote "cx", "gx" "ux", etc. This seems very standard usage when you are writing on limited charsets. Nowadays, you can just type the actual letters, it's not a big deal. I actually find the choice of accents cute and I love them.
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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by kevinios on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:54PM (#18689452)
Very interesting. I should spend a few minutes reading about it, but: does that mean that accents do not actually have a utility in Esperanto, and that using ĝ or g in the same word does not create two different meanings? Is it just for pronunciation purposes?

Edit: The forum link that kissickas's posted answers my question :-) Thanks

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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by enriquto on Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:02PM (#18689495)
No, the idea is that you write "gx" instead of "ĝ". The letters have a different meaning.
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Re:Today is Esperanto Day – here’s why I learned it by kevinios on Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:17PM (#18689568)
Ok I see. By "Nowadays, you can just type the actual letters, it's not a big deal.", I had understood that you could actually just use the normal letter and it would still be understood.
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