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stavros on July 7, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why English doesn't use accents

Italian script doesn't use diacritics, though, so it's not the same kind of accent as the article talks about.

Luker88 on July 7, 2025 [–]

Italian script most definitely requires diacritics.

"è" (is) vs "e" (and)

"pero" (pear tree) vs "però" (but)

"perché" is the only correct one and "perche" and "perchè" do not exist

and so many other examples.

stavros on July 7, 2025 | [–]

Oh huh, I've forgotten more Italian than I thought, thanks for the correction!

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