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tender monolithBOT
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charred plaza
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In french accents are typically more important - some might be left out if they're not important to pronunciation, or if someone's particularly lazy, but completely omitting accents I usually only see from people who struggle to write in the first place

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They will usually be omitted systematically by people from France on capital letters though due to their keyboards making it difficult/impossible to type

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But several accented letters have dedicated keys

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So it doesn't take longer to type those

manic trout
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umm i get it

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thank u sm

errant meteor
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people leave off accents, but it's hard to leave off all accents

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also sometimes people leave off accents by misspellings thing unintentionally, and i think in general unintentional misspellings are more common in french than in english or portuguese

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"Je l'ai trouve" looks weird, because it should be "Je l'ai trouvé", but people will mistakenly write "Je l'ai trouver"

subtle oxide
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The only one that's consistently left out in texting is œ because it's not available on most keyboard layouts (written as oe instead, e.g. sœur = soeur)

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But for the most part leaving off accents gives the same vibe as ppl who rite lyk ths in english n its hardr 2 rede

errant meteor
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it's definitely way more common in french to text like that

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i think just because there are way more homophones like mangé/manger and english requires more "superfluous" letters to be readable

subtle oxide
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Not in my experience, but it could depend on the group
And I'm not even sure there's many more homophones in french than english. English has quite a few itself.

errant meteor
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i mean... 90% of nouns are homophones with their plural forms

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every verb has a lot of conjugations that are homophones with each other

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even very common words are homophones with other common words, take for instance, ces, ses, c'est, and s'est

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these all have clearly distinguished meanings and are used constantly, yet sound the same