#diacritics

For example:

Read - present tense of ‘to read’

Réad - past tense of ‘to read’

Envelop - to surround

Ènvelope - paper containing a letter

Moral - ethically correct; a lesson

Morále - energy, happiness

Etc etc

Not only does it help with homophones but it could also make orthography slightly easier since we could more easily distinguish vowel sounds

Poll as well as notes are at the bóttom.

Philósophy (from Áncient Greek philosophía lit. 'love of wísdom') is a sýstematic stúdy of géneral and fúndamental quéstions concérning tópics like exístence, knówledge, mind, réason, lánguage, and válue. It is a rátional and crítical ínquiry that reflécts on its méthods and assúmptions.

The státue The Thínker by Auguste Rodin is a sýmbol of phílosophical thought.[1]

Histórically, mány of the indivídual scíences, such as phýsics and psychólogy, formed part of philósophy. Howéver, they are consídered séparate ácademic dísciplines in the módern sense of the term. Ínfluential tradítions in the hístory of philósophy inclúde Wéstern, Árabic–Pérsian, Índian, and Chínese philósophy. Wéstern philósophy oríginated in Áncient Greece and cóvers a wide área of phílosophical súbfields. A céntral tópic in Árabic–Pérsian philósophy is the relátion betwéen réason and revelátion. Índian philósophy combínes the spíritual próblem of how to reach enlíghtenment with the éxploration of the náture of reálity and the ways of arríving at knówledge. Chinése philósophy fócuses príncipally on práctical íssues abóut right sócial cónduct, góvernment, and self-cultivátion.

Májor bránches of philósophy are epistemólogy, éthics, lógic, and métaphysics. Epistemólogy stúdies what knówledge is and how to acquíre it. Éthics invéstigates móral prínciples and what cónstitutes right cónduct. Lógic is the stúdy of corréct réasoning and explóres how good árguments can be distínguished from bad ones. Métaphysics exámines the most géneral féatures of reálity, exístence, óbjects, and próperties. Óther súbfields are aesthétics, philósophy of lánguage, philósophy of mind, philósophy of mathemátics, philósophy of scíence, philósophy of relígion, philósophy of hístory, and polítical philósophy. Withín each branch, there are compéting schools of philósophy that promóte dífferent prínciples, théories, or méthods.

Mány scíentific ácademic dísciplines have assóciated phílosophical súbfields, like philósophy of phýsics, philósophy of neúroscience and philósophy of biólogy, that exámine their fúndamental cóncepts, méthods, assúmptions and implicátions. Philósophy is reláted to and infórms mány óther fields, such as law, búsiness, and jóurnalism, províding an interdísciplinary perspéctive and addréssing their éthical quéstions.

Philósophers use a great varíety of méthods to arríve at phílosophical knówledge. They inclúde concéptual análysis, relíance on cómmon sense and intuitíons, use of thought expériments, análysis of órdinary lánguage, descríption of expérience, and crítical quéstioning.

Notes

Asíde from ádding áccent marks, nóthing was changed abóut the spélling of the árticle.

The French name Auguste Rodin has not been áltered.

Words connécted by a hýphen are áccented as séparate words.

Some words stress-shift based on séntence posítion, and this is reflécted in how they are spelled (Chinése->Chínese philósophy, philosóphical->phílosophical thought).

Some spellings may seem off, either becáuse you and me pronóunce the word dífferently from one anóther, or becáuse I made a legítimate error in transcríbing my own pronúnciation (but do let me know if I seem to have missed sómething!)

-I know all of the letters and diacritics

-I know most of the letters and diacritics

-I know some of the letters and diacritics

-I know a few of the letters and diacritics

-I know none of the letters and diacritics

Thanks to @floydbolsonenjoyer for the great poll idea! I would never have thought of this one, so I appreciate the new topic :-)

On the other hand, I was reflecting when I woke up this morning on how we've run into this problem before with double-O's (think cooperation or the starker abbreviation coop, or for a milder variant involving E's, think reelect). Now historically (although it's mostly fallen out of practice quite recently) we would put a diaeresis (two dots) over one of the O's to indicate that it should be separated from the other, as in the spelling coöperation. (This is, I believe, interestingly one of the only uses of diacritics in the entire history of the English language, along with some obscure spellings of words like belovèd and diacritics occasionally kept in borrowings like piñata.)

Gerudo Language Series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, & Part 7.

GeruLang: Diacritic & Diagraphic Characters

Ya'll, I may well have lost my absolute mind.

I have spent more time than is probably necessary creating a Gerudo numerical system & even a system of diacritics.

Send help.

Anyone who studies languages & their corresponding lexicons, can ya'll tell me if there's any merit to this stuff I made or if I'm just crazy & obsessed?

Also, for "ā," "é," & "ī," I'm thinking that the 2 different characters are differentiated by what's considered formal/proper & what's informal/casual. Perhaps the ones that are based on the original character, but upside down are considered formal, but the ones that are right-side up are informal? Because the informal ones are usually done that way due to muscle memory; the hand reacting the way that it would when writing the original character before the writer realizes it & then tacking on the accent so that the intention of the character is clear.

I've also created some digraphic characters.

Thanks.

I've actually made a font using all this, so if ya'll want it, just say so.