So – the diacritics are a feature of phonetics (not phonemics) and of tension, not lengthening. ❋ Unknown (2010)
May I point out that the "diacritics" are in fact largely meaningless from the point of view of transliteration. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You don't even need to worry about accented characters (words which have in their structure "diacritics"), as Swype will display the correct spelling immediately after you trace the word. ❋ Unknown (2008)
TypeIt - Type accent marks, diacritics and foreign letters online 2010/05/06 ❋ Unknown (2010)
If you often use words that require diacritics, you may find that learning the AutoCorrect key combinations is faster and more convenient. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The AutoCorrect function in Word can assist you in entering diacritics to provide their proper appearance in a word. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As for the diacritics to signal vowel length, it seems that the length of a vowel depends, not on its phonemic value, but on its environment. ❋ Unknown (2010)
How do you pronounce “Thathanka Iyothanka” and what do the diacritics indicate? ❋ Unknown (2009)
A Turk, Azeri or Central Asian may romanize this as Faruk Ömer Abdülmütellep or Abdulmutallap, with or without diacritics, with or without the final p instead of b … And then there are possible South Asian spellings, Malaysian ones, and then there are misspellings of all of the above. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Vowels are indeed another matter, and I agree with your choice of symbols for the glides, which I think are becoming standard as the UK publisher preference for IPA symbols over letters/diacritics takes hold. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Other parts include language models (the ability to handle phrases, synonyms, diacritics, spelling mistakes, and so on), query models (it's not just the language, it's how people use it today), time models (some queries are best answered with a 30-minutes old page, and some are better answered with a page that stood the test of time), and personalized models (not all people want the same thing). ❋ Unknown (2008)
If the print media was willing to add diacritics to foreign names – not difficult now that most print is computer type-set, and fonts contain the necessary letter shapes – then it would become even more acceptable to use the more native pronunciation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In both of these examples, we are actually discussing two different names for the same place; in Łódż/Lodz, we have only one the Polish name, albeit frequently spelled without diacritics. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So my gut feeling is that it is not unreasonable for a newscaster to use the “correct” (i.e., local) pronunciation for a given place if (a) the name is the same in both languages (modulo diacritics) and (b) the name has not become so common in its anglicised form that use of the foreign pronunciation would seem “precious” 1. ❋ Unknown (2009)
You are quite sui generis (sorry to lapse into yet another language), but remember that even the very savvy guys at Nuovi Argomenti — one of the most highly regarded journals in Italy — had trouble with the proper diacritics for the Maltese bits of your poems. ❋ Unknown (2007)
