| Many things to point out here: - Diacritics, for example in German, make writing and reading easier than English and you cannot have ghoti[1] - Diacritics, is an easy way to avoid di-grams and tri-grams: English has "sh", Czech has "š" (it's not a decoration, it has a true meaning) - ASCII seems to make a nice team with English because it's an American creation. Should English had some accents that ASCII would have included them, like dollar sign (this is an "S" with a stroke…)[2] - Languages that could go with out vowels are those where words forms have no ambiguity. In English, "bt" for example is ambiguous because there's "bit", "bat", "but", "boat", etc. So you are just having a ethnocentric point of view, that's human. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign |