FID Nahost#CatchOfTheDay
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"Beobachtungen von dem Gebrauche des syrischen Puncti diacritici bey den Verbis" by Johann Lorenz Isenbiehl
[Göttingen: Barmeier, 1773]
MerrittI added diacritics support to Plasma Keyboard!
https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/03/13/2026/_plasma-keyboard-funding-diacritics
Now I can more easily write German words as I continue learning it, such as: über, schön, and Straße!
Also, I can sprinkle my lovely symbols in my writing without having to resort to the compose key or copy-pasting — isn't that great‽ 😁
Head·word /ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ n.“How is that /ɲ/-sound spelled again?”
“I guess it depends. Is it Spanish or Portuguese?”
“It's ‘exotic’.”
“Oh, then you can spell it however you like!”
#diacritic #diacritics #DiacriticalConfusion #FaxeKondiñho #TypographyInTheWild
Jeffrey Hessmission-impossible_anonymous movie
script the-code the_guild treesale #diacritics #decibel #gog #gears #gavel #thelion #dod #deathnote #subatomics #heuristical #undoing #forensics #theaccountant #mud #iota #odoms #odomictricalsequencingforspatialanalysis #scholastics #hassingnetwork
script the-code the_guild treesale #diacritics #decibel #gog #gears #gavel #thelion #dod #deathnote #subatomics #heuristical #undoing #forensics #theaccountant #mud #iota #odoms #odomictricalsequencingforspatialanalysis #scholastics #hassingnetwork
Andrew AbdalianHow is #Windows still so bad at entering characters with #diacritics? I know you can install custom keyboards or use alt-codes (and I have done both), but is there really no simpler way to use dead keys on a standard English keyboard? I guess I could switch to a Canadian French keyboard and remap my mental keyboard when I'm using Windows...or I could just do what I usually do and avoid Windows like the plague.
EconomistaInsolvent#microrelats #microcontes #escriure #escriureencatalà #relatsencatalà #uncontecadadia #dia2011 #maleirelsossos #diacrítics
Aleksandra SamuļenkovaThis illustrated encyclopaedia illustrates nicely the problems of the wider accents on i when followed (or preceded) by an ascender. Especially in narrow and serif-less types. Luckily, in this lettered title the slight shift of the dieresis does the trick.
#type #typedesign #lettering #diacritics
#type #typedesign #lettering #diacritics
A cute Lithuanian/Polish case of a drop-shaped ogonek, aptly named by @kupfers droponek.
And a…um…splashcute (Ó)?
#Lithuania #Vilnius #typography #stonecarving #diacritics
And a…um…splashcute (Ó)?
#Lithuania #Vilnius #typography #stonecarving #diacritics
In Kaunas you simply bump into accented letters casually plastered on the walls, imagine that.
#Lithuania #diacritics #typography
#Lithuania #diacritics #typography
Dan QI've found only two heterophonic homonyms if non-English languages (and they're... arguable), and I'd be fascinated in hear if there are any others. I found:
1. #French couvent ("convent" or "to sit/brood on", although the latter is archaic)
2. #Portugese pelo ("hair" or "to peel", although my Portugese-speaking friend says she'd still spell the former "pêlo" despite the push to reform the language's #diacritics)