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Re:Why English doesn't use accents by ralferoo on Monday July 07, 2025 @09:46AM (#44490337)
French also has some weird gotchas, e.g. "la démocratie" where the spelling represents the word's root rather than pronunciation.
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Re:Why English doesn't use accents by cm2187 on Monday July 07, 2025 @10:22AM (#44490680)
An even worse example is the last name "de Broglie", which I think most French natives would likely get wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k45IZDkg2Pg

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Re:Why English doesn't use accents by gottorf on Monday July 07, 2025 @10:00PM (#44496299)
Not nearly as bad as the English pronouncing, say, the name Cholmondeley :-)
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