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> the internet is going to wipe out apostrophes from people’s actual names

Also seeing that with accentuated uppercase letters in French, even in nouns, because it's hard to type them on Windows.

People still use accents in lowercase of course, but think that it's incorrect to use accents for uppercase letters, even when handwriting.




I only learned they do have the accents from your post. I was taught to omit them about a decade ago (as a second language).


It is obligatory in Spanish -using accents both in lower and upper cases...




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