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Reëlection?

• dcminter 10mo ago
  The New Yorker house style. https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-and-the-new-yorker/ https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-... Seems weird to me, I'd just use a hyphen, but that's how they roll.
  • karmakurtisaani 10mo ago
    I bet they have a dedicated room without ventilation so they can smell their own farts uninterrupted. Seriously, I find it highly pretentious.
• reddalo 10mo ago
  Explanation here: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-... > [...] we have three options for these kinds of words: “cooperate,” “co-operate,” and “coöperate.” Back when the magazine was just getting started, someone decided that the first misread and the second was ridiculous, and adopted the diaeresis as the most elegant solution with the broadest application.
  • AnimalMuppet 10mo ago
    They decided the dieresis was less ridiculous than the hyphen?
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