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Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) by crazygringo on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:54PM (#27240447)
I feel like that's pretty true worldwide for languages with diacritics, at least for all the Latin-script languages I'm familiar with.

It's really no different from people in English shortening "you" to "u" in texting as well, or "lol". Everybody saves keystrokes wherever they can.

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Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) by danijelb on Friday May 21, 2021 @06:18PM (#27240666)
It's popular for some reason even in countries where it doesn't save keystrokes. For example in Croatia we have 5 characters with diacritics (š, đ, č, ć, ž), all of them have dedicated keys on the keyboard and yet many people have a habit of simply not using them.
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Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) by ygra on Saturday May 22, 2021 @11:44AM (#27247590)
In German, ä would never be replaced by a (if all you have is ASCII the proper replacement is ae), except by foreigners who assume that diacritics don't matter.
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