Checkmarks or advice for the diaspora?

Just a little piece of friendly advice for my fellow Americans living abroad.
It might not be obvious, but since most keyboards over there don't have our specific accented letters, seeing "sc" or "sh" used instead of characters like Ç or Š can be a bit distracting when reading... some people on the forum actually end up skipping those posts entirely because of it. If you could just stick to using standard C, S, or Z, it would make things much smoother for everyone...
Thanks!

It truly strikes me how many words in the English language can undergo such a radical transformation just by the absence of a single little diacritic mark! It creates these rather perplexing situations where two entirely different meanings collide, leaving one quite adrift and unable to discern which specific term was actually intended within the given context. It’s much like navigating a fog without a compass, really. Therefore, I am firmly of the opinion that in those particular instances, it is absolutely essential to include markers like 'sh' or 'ch' to ensure total clarity and prevent any such linguistic confusion from taking root.

Ronald Baker16 said:There are a ton of words where leaving out the accent changes the whole meaning—and in certain contexts, you can't even tell which one someone means. So, at least in those cases, you really should use the diacritics like SH or CH.

Yeah, sure—we’ll just magically fix our spelling overnight since we've been getting by just fine without it for years.

silentfalcon3 said:Just a quick bit of friendly advice for our friends living abroad.
I know you might not realize it, but when you're using an American keyboard, it's actually pretty frustrating to see "sc" or "sh" used instead of the proper accented characters. Some regulars here end up skipping those posts entirely because they're hard to read. Please, just use standard C, S, or Z if you have to!
Thanks!

Maybe try holding down Alt Gr and hitting 2 😁 along with z, c, or s

Richard Nelson2 said:I think we all understand how easy it is to just find our own way through these things, much like how we've spent years chatting like this...

You took the words right out of my mouth...

And you guys totally glossed over the folks who don't even bother with a V... they just go straight for the W instead...😂😂

silentfalcon3 said:A quick bit of friendly advice for our fellow Americans living abroad.
We all know that when you're living overseas, your keyboard doesn't have our specific accented letters. You might not realize it, but seeing "sc" or "sh" used instead of the proper characters can be pretty annoying to read. Some people here actually skip over posts because of it. Just stick to using plain C, S, or Z!
Thanks!

Honestly... I don't think any of us living abroad write like that, and since most of us hang out together here, it's rare. I did run into one person writing that way on my other PDF group—she wasn't even an expat—and I gave her a bit of a hard time because those typos bug me too.

So far, whenever I've seen that happen, the users were listed as being from back home (at least according to their location). I suspect some do it just out of habit, while a tiny percentage probably feel a sense of duty to "preserve" the spelling, but either way, there’s a massive difference in how it looks.