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User:PeterKa/Diacritics proposal (view source)
Revision as of 07:29, June 25, 2014
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Why we shouldn't use Vietnamese diacritics in English-language writing:
'''Is it "pho" or "phở"? Why we shouldn't use Vietnamese diacritics in English-language writing.'''
# ''The Chicago Manual of Style'' recommends using the spellings given in ''Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary'', ''Merriam-Webster Biographical Dictionary'', ''Merriam-Webster Geographic Dictionary'', and ''International Who's Who''. All four of these of references give Vietnamese names without diacritics.
# Other standard library reference works that cover Vietnam do the same: ''Britannica'', ''Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War'' (2011), ''Encyclopedia of Modern Asia'' (2002), ''National Geographic Atlas of the World'', and ''Lonely Planet Vietnam''.
# ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', the best-known style guide, recommends using the spellings given in ''Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary'', ''Merriam-Webster Biographical Dictionary'', ''Merriam-Webster Geographic Dictionary'', and ''International Who's Who''. All four of these of reference works give Vietnamese names without diacritics.
# Other standard library reference works that cover Vietnam also remove the diacritics: ''Britannica'', ''Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War'' (2011), ''Encyclopedia of Modern Asia'' (2002), ''National Geographic Atlas of the World'', and ''Lonely Planet Vietnam''.
# Go on Amazon and search for "Vietnam" books. I guarantee that no book that comes up in the top twenty will use Vietnamese diacritics in the running text.
# Go on Amazon and search for "Vietnam" books. I guarantee that no book that comes up in the top twenty will use Vietnamese diacritics in the running text.
# They're considered "distracting," according to the [http://stylemanual.ngs.org/home/A/accent-marks style guide of National Geographic]. We want readers to focus on the content of the article rather than the style it is written in.
# They're "distracting," according to the [http://stylemanual.ngs.org/home/A/accent-marks style guide of National Geographic]. We want readers to focus on the content of the article rather than the style it is written in.
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