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Look up any of the place names mentioned in that article, every one has the diacritics removed. Imagine if a magazine removed all the vowels from American English. "Bdn flw frm Nw Yrk t Ls Ngls"
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nostr:npub1k08pe3kghynslu5gh9cqyguud2lyk5fl84wqm073tzxqnmk04ygskh6xvn In many languages (Czech is the one with which I'm familiar), removing diacritics *changes the letter*. An 's' with a hacek over it is a different letter than an s without. Just as ñ and n are different letters in Spanish.

To reframe your analogy, the NYT isn't removing vowels, but it's randomly replacing vowels with different vowels.

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wakest ⁂ 2y ago

nostr:npub1l7mx4h49gstf0wvjkpsqdznzayfkjlrtysmuauuf62gk9lx4uakszwqkhl It was simply an analogy that I thought to write. But yes you are right that its closer to changing vowels then emitting them. Tho I guess this also depends on the context of what language they are doing this to.