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People who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ? (lemm.ee)

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Clarification Edit: for people who speak English natively and are learning a second language

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[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

You forgot naïve. Why does it have a fucking umlaut?????

[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

It's a dieresis, to let you know that the i is to be pronounced separately from the a.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Are there any other words that have it though? Also if the english spelling were consistent you would not need the dieresis

[-] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The New Yorker's style guide requires markers for coöperate, coöpt, etc., but it's non-standard outside of that one particular publication.

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 5 months ago

I have seen coöperate, but it is certainly uncommon.

[-] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Not sure
100% agree

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

This would make a good t-shirt

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 5 months ago

I honestly wasn't aware naïve had a dieresis in English.

I mean, it makes complete sense for it to have one in languages that use them, but I wasn't aware it was a loanword (from French or Normand, I assume).

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It's from french although naive is also a valid spelling.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Honestly it pisses me off that autocorrect adds all the beauty dots to it when I just try to write "naive"

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