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On the fragile assumption that this isn’t a lazy troll, the words naïve, façade, fiancée, and coöperative are all in English. And that’s ignoring extremely comm
by robin_reala 5y ago
On the fragile assumption that this isn’t a lazy troll, the words naïve, façade, fiancée, and coöperative are all in English. And that’s ignoring extremely common English symbols like £ and — that aren’t part of ASCII, and come to think of it the “’” in “aren’t”.
And, hell, I guess that even after English becomes the world language, you’ll still want to spell people and place names correctly?
- JadeNB 5y ago> And, hell, I guess that even after English becomes the world language, you’ll still want to spell people and place names correctly? I suspect that anyone who believes that English is the final language (how can it be anything other than a lazy troll?) probably believes that dropping diacritics and otherwise mangling the glyphs of other alphabets is spelling them 'correctly'.
- account42 5y ago> coöperative Not that I agree with going back to ASCII, but cooperative is already the dominant spelling by a wide margin to the point where using coöperative comes off as pretentious.
- robin_reala 5y agoYeah, to be fair I was scraping to find another much-used example of a diaresis. But it’s house style for the New Yorker at least.
- kergonath 5y agoComing off as pretentious does not make it incorrect, and it is not the business of people writing software to decide what is correct or not.