now you thought arithmetic was hard... they really omitted telling us a clear deciphering of diacritical marks - kept the advantage. it's not really an area of expertise, but an area of clear interest worthy of a spider-web corner, something to feel cosy in... for god sake, even the Greeks started using diacritical distinctions on their beautiful alphabet... the English left theirs in squalor... *******... get moving! or you won't get rid of illiteracy in your people you sadistic *******! because, i mean, with the appropriation of diacritic you can teach people strong unitary measurements applicability of encoded sounds, that's what i learnt from Polish... e.g.: Ł (wha-wha Jimi Hendrix peddle voodoo child - ń is an n but pinching your tongue internally - kabbalah is the anatomy of the mouth and the nasal cavity, in kabbalah you have the organs teeth tongue nose mouth breath to deal with, expedition into vibrations... ó is just an aesthetic alternative to u... so the word looks pretty... you need these marks, otherwise you're first teaching people the alphabet, then you're teaching them syllables... great twigs and all... then you shove a tree into their eyes, a custard, an entire word... no wonder you have a syllabus (origin syllable) to teach them the atomic scaling of things: tree you teach as e e r t and you teach onomatopoeia as  a   a   e   i   m   n   o   o   o   o   p   t... and that's hardly a Mendeleev rational (French, prolonged a     syllable cutting on -tio-   prolonged n with -al, using diacritics: rātion̄al).

             diacritics - also synonymous with punctuation,
             syllable punctuation, not between words
             but inside them.*

as a Latin man, i'm still stuck on
deciphering the barbarism,
what barbarism you ask?
the diacritical marks added to our
alphabet - it's the last stronghold
of the literate class - i'm sitting here
wondering how to use them,
i have a couple i'm certain off,
but others just seem too impromptu,
too wobbly in how they're used,
given people cheat, gamble, and lie,
i'm not sure some of these marks
are properly explained in schools,
actually, i don't think any of them are...
not to my knowledge, with the English
language stark naked and it's
many particularities of grapheme hidden,
i could list you the oddities, but there
are too many unique examples to go
through; i mean, you could write
Joyce's Finnegans Wake on 20 pages if
the diacritical marks were included
and not this excessive spelling to capture
these stresses of accent.