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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by kwanbix on Thursday August 10, 2023 @08:46AM (#37075484)
Spanish has accents in the a, e, i, o, u. I never use them, ans is still understandable. If you really believe that writing chinese is easer than writing in Spanish, you are absolutely wrong.
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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by nickitolas on Thursday August 10, 2023 @09:16AM (#37075776)
Speaking as another native spanish speaker, I also basically never use accents. I sometimes add them by applying spellchecker suggestions in formal writing (Work emails, etc) when I see the red squiggles.
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Re:Has Google Translate been fixed yet? by croes on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:05AM (#37076325)
Easy to say if you already are used to one language.

Maybe better to compare it to languages that also use letters to represent words but aren't from the same family.

Maybe Arabic.

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