Pressure to assimilate and technological shortcomings have forced many Latinos in the U.S. to ditch accent marks.
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But their initial choice meant that for many decades, it was either impossible or a ton of extra work to include accents in digital communications. By the time the systems caught up, many users had fallen into the habit of ignoring them.Valerie Muñoz, an assistant principal in Kent, Washington,"It feels like I am reclaiming something by using it now," Muñoz tells Axios Latino.
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