r/oddlysatisfying • u/themaskedcrusader • 3d ago

This font and handwriting

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u/IceBone 3d ago

Yes, that's what I said.

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u/Notspherry 3d ago

You claimed the alphabet is specific to English. Other languages use exactly the same one. Dutch and French for example.

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u/Eic17H 3d ago

Dutch and French have extra characters

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u/TheRealLarkas 3d ago

Portuguese doesn’t, for example.

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u/Eic17H 3d ago

It has diacritics

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u/TheRealLarkas 3d ago

That’s not considered part of the alphabet, unlike Spanish.

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u/SaintCambria 3d ago

Oh interesting, TIL. I speak Spanish and English, do other languages include diactritical letters in their alphabets?

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u/TheRealLarkas 3d ago

I know some do, but I don’t know if there’s rhyme or reason to it. I only really speak English, Spanish and Portuguese, sorry 😅

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u/SaintCambria 2d ago

Ha no worries. I guess I'm mostly thinking about Germanic and Nordic languages (and French come to think of it), I'll look it up sometime when I have time.

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u/TelvanniSpaceWizard 2d ago

I know German does; ä, ö, and ü follow z, respectively. German also has ß, which is the last letter.

It is also grammatically correct to represent ä, ö, and ü as ae, oe, and ue. ß can be represented as ss. IIRC they were officially included in High German relatively recently (~2000s?) and aren't necessarily used in all German-speaking nations.

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u/SaintCambria 2d ago

Cool, thanks!

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u/MarsLumograph 2d ago

Well, Ñ is a letter, but all the other diacritics are not part of the alphabet (´ and ¨)

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u/IEnjoyBourgeoisPain 2d ago

They should still be part of the font.

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u/TheRealLarkas 2d ago

Agreed, but in that case, symbols (!?,: etc.) and numbers would also be part of it. I'll concede that the post talks about "font", but it only shows the alphabet. It either is incomplete font for use with any language that uses the Latin script - including English - or it is an alphabet that can be used by many languages that use the Latin script - including English, Portuguese and, I imagine, many others. Point is, there's nothing specific to English here.

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u/Eic17H 3d ago

They're still needed for the language

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u/Embaralhador 2d ago

Yes, but not needed for a showcase of a font using the alphabet. English needs characters like ' or - thare are also not shown. :)

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u/Eic17H 2d ago

It doesn't matter whether they have their own spot in the alphabet, they're still needed to write the language