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content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack's unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by

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[-] gerikson@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

I don't believe this is a correct use of a diaeresis: "preöccupied" (and not just because it looks ridiculous if you know Swedish)

[-] carlitoscohones@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago

Eschewing the mainstream use of language and formatting is a sign of genius.

[-] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago

Bring back röckdöts!

(Funniest example of that is the band Tröjan, which literally means "the sweater" in Swedish)

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 points 8 months ago

Whomst’ve even come up with such a preposterous usage

[-] YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

If you thought English was French it would phonetically read something like “pruhccupied” without it, or even more phonetically “prëccupied” (using, funnily enough, the same dots but as in Albanian orthography, which happen to capture the sound quite well). Does this only raise further questions? Well yes.

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