Re: No diacritics in English

On 13 Dec 2006 10:01:02 -0800, "gunananda" <gunananda@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, why not use diacritics in English to distinguish homographs?
hmm, maybe something like

réad (lesen) vs reád (gelesen)
learned (gelernt) vs learnéd (gelehrt)

and so on
also diacritics could help in getting the right pronounce

To be consistent with the rest of our spelling system, we could add
them at random, depending on how we misremember the rule.

(I'm thinking of the apostrophe that's supposed to distinguish the
written forms of some homophones like "its" and "it's". How much good
does it end up doing? "Réad" and "reád" aren't intended to represent
homophones, but they'd immediately be in more or less free variation.)
.

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