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by donatj 1436 days ago
Look those words up in the dictionary and they won’t have the diacritics, except as an alternative spelling. They’re loan words, and it’s a stylistic choice.

Ask 95% of laymen to write those words and there will be no diacritics, and the language is defined by its users.

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Sure, let's look them up in a dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resume

résumé (noun) variants: or resume

Huh.

Nice of you to skip over the first, primary entry and select the secondary entry. The primary entry has no accent characters.
The first entry is for "resume", the verb, which is a different word than "résumé", the noun. Note that none of the definitions provided for the verb "resume" would come close to working where someone intends to use "résumé", the noun.