It's at least a little more elementary than that. There are many, many school teachers of young children that will tell you that words like coöperative lost a l

It's at least a little more elementary than that. There are many, many school teachers of young children that will tell you that words like coöperative lost a lot useful disambiguation power when English dropped support for such syllabic markers. I see words written like that and I think of grade school, which seems like the opposite of pretension.