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Unusual 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 separat
by _petronius 7y ago
Unusual 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.