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coördinate is so pedantic, I love it :) I forget where I read it, but some publication in the US uses the "interpunct" to the same effect: co·ordinate.
by jordibunster 13y ago
coördinate is so pedantic, I love it :)
I forget where I read it, but some publication in the US uses the "interpunct" to the same effect: co·ordinate.
- bane 13y agoThe editor of one of the magazines MIT publishes insists on "coöperate"...which of course shows up several times in every issue.
- jessriedel 13y agoHa, I noticed this too. It's MIT Technology Review. Excellent magazine.
- bane 13y agoYeah, that's the one. It's a great magazine, too bad about the editor's fetish for that letter since it's not part of the English orthography. I think it's also used in The New Yorker. sigh Why can't English speakers just be happy with their language without trying to turn it into Latin or German or something else? It's particularly funny with the word "cooperate", since those editors are insisting on using a Germanic orthograph on a Latin-rooted word. Blegh, whatever. I don't usually care too much about language usage, but for some reason this one kind of gets under my skin.
- ygra 13y agoThe diaeresis in this context is not an Umlaut. It has similar roots as on ï which comes from French, I think. While äöü in German are letters with distinct sounds, the diaeresis on vowels in English usage signifies a short pause before that vowel.