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Rules for thee, but not for me.
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2024
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coöperate – we used to have a diaeresis on the second ‘o’ to indicate a second syllable (and to make it clear we weren’t talking about barrel making) but then we decided we hated accent marks …
Typesetters decided we hate accent marks
The New Yorker would like to have a word.
They throw umlauts around like they're going out of style
Gotta use these things up guys
Typesetters were right.
As a German, it's a welcome change.
Imagine your head automatically pronouncing the "ö" of coöperate like this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_rounded_vowel
röck döts
the pain of being nordic/german, you're utterly incapable of taking anglophone metal albums seriously
"motörhead", yeah sure, mote 'er head
bring back accent marks!!