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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by eru on Friday May 13, 2016 @07:59AM (#11689859)
Wouldn't it be cöoperative?
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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by tremon on Friday May 13, 2016 @08:26AM (#11689968)
It wouldn't be. The goal is to separate the second o from the first, not to separate the o from the c:

The diaeresis indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter that precedes it [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_%28diacritic%29#Diae...

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Re:Identify Any Language Written in the Roman Alphabet at a ... by eru on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:43AM (#11694808)
Oh, true. Naive should have tipped me off.
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