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But in French, changing accents would rarely lead to a word with a different meaning. But, say, vall means 'testifies', váll means 'shoulder', szóló is 'solo' while szőlő is grape, int is '[s/he] winks' while ínt is the accusative case of 'tendon'.

Leaving off German Umlauts is not a good idea either (konnte-könnte).

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by DoDo on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 02:40:40 PM EST
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Re: graphs, Chris... (none / 1)

sort of like a change of tone in Chinese then

by zoe on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 02:54:38 PM EST
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Re: graphs, Chris... (none / 1)

No. Sort of like the difference between an a and an o.

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by DoDo on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 03:41:42 PM EST
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Re: graphs, Chris... (none / 1)

Oh, I just thought of the worst example: hat is already an isomorphism, as it can both be 'six' and '[s/he] effects [something]'; while hát is another isomorphism, between 'back' and c. 'well then' -- leave off accents, and it's a four times isomorphism!

I note that in ASCII times, computer-Hungarian was rather cumbersome and looked like this: ko:szo:no:m, szo"lo", ha't.

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by DoDo on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 05:04:38 PM EST
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