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Re:Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) by yencabulator on Friday January 31, 2025 @11:49AM (#42889264)
As a non-native speaker, coöperate does NOT help, it makes it harder to recognizes otherwise familiar words.

Especially when one comes from a language where ö is a completely different letter than o.

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Re:Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) by int_19h on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:28PM (#42902543)
I'm not a fan of dieresis for this specifically because it's too confusing due to its frequent use for other things in other languages. But there are other ways to indicate it.
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