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> But coördinating telephone conversations As a non-native speaker, I wonder: is this a typo or intentional?
by lqet 7y ago
> But coördinating telephone conversations
As a non-native speaker, I wonder: is this a typo or intentional?
- mjlee 7y agoIt's part of the New Yorker's writing style. It is somewhat archaic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
- drunkpotato 7y agoIt’s not a typo, it’s a diaeresis, to indicate the second vowel is pronounced separately from the first vowel instead of being one sound. It’s a typographic convention that’s going out of style on the web.
- _petronius 7y agoUnusual in modern orthography, and I have only seen it in the New Yorker house style (the diaeresis indicates that the second vowel should be pronounced separately, which is quite different to how that mark is used in a number of other languages that use the Latin alphabet, like German and Turkish). This is subjective, but it reads as a little pretentious to me as a native speaker, compared with other ways of marking it. More usual is 'co-ordinating' or just 'coordinating' without marking the syllable break between the prefix and the root.
- nathanaldensr 7y agoIt's super pretentious. Meanwhile, they are writing articles about whether email was a mistake... Get your priorities straight, New Yorker!
- atomwaffel 7y ago> which is quite different to how that mark is used in a number of other languages that use the Latin alphabet, like German and Turkish True, although there are other languages use the diaeresis to separate vowels that would otherwise be a diphthong, for example French in Noël or Spanish in vergüenza.
- _petronius 7y agoAh, cool. It wouldn't surprise me if English borrowed that from French, actually.
- wycy 7y agoThe New Yorker likes to add the diaeresis in words like this--it's just their style. They do the same with reëlection and other double-vowel words where the second vowel takes a different sound.