I was reading this this thread about how the New York Times butchers all the diacritics from non English languages and I was like this must be fake theres no way they still do this so I looked up a recent article about Vietnam and fucking hell they are still doing this.
Here is an article (unpaywalled) you can look at to verify https://archive.ph/dzV80
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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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the nyt has established orthographic rules which can easily be identified as anti-global-south, or anti-non-germanic, If you will...
diacritics are handled differently e.g for german names: no changes here; see https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/science/alex-muller-dead.html
butchering diacritics are diacritics appears to be restricted to the rest...
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