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Re:An Opinionated Critique of Duolingo by sunsetonsaturn on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:56AM (#45435077)
The ambiguity goes away if you write them as "все" and "всё". Diacritics, accents, umlauts and cedillas are useful; if you omit them you do a disservice to the reader.
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Re:An Opinionated Critique of Duolingo by CrazyStat on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @08:07AM (#45436728)
Maybe so, but omitting them on ё is standard practice in Russian. A language learner who doesn't learn to deal with the ambiguity of the omitted diacritics will struggle to read real-world texts.
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