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Jeremy Mallin<p>I'm kinda curious how mechanical typewriters used to handle languages with diacritics. Did they need extra keys or did people have to backspace and type over the glyph? </p><p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/RandomThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RandomThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a></p>
Jeremy Mallin<p>English should have diacritics.</p><p>It would be nice if we didn't have to do things like "sooooo" to indicate stretching out the syllable.</p><p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/RandomThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RandomThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a></p>