alt Hacker News>only 26 letters with no accents on a keyboard
This was caused by the printing press and the typewriter (keyboard) both of which forced simplifications in the written English language.
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lmm • today at 1:41 AM
And yet other languages have managed to resist those simplifications. So it's clearly not 100% forced.
You just press backspace and hit the accent mark key or for a printing press stack the accent mark on top of the letter. People ditched accents because they were rarely used in English writing (only really being used for some loanwords), not because simplifications were forced by typewriters or the printing press (which handle non-English languages just fine).