Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
by eieio on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:03PM
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if this isn’t a joke - new yorker style uses a diaresis when a word has a repeated vowel where the second vowel is part of a different syllable. coördinate, coöperate, and reëlect are probably the most common places where this comes up
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
by dmitrygr on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @07:39PM
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It is how you properly tell apart a coop which houses chickens from a coöp which is a business entity owned by its members
Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted?
by next_xibalba on Saturday April 11, 2026 @05:38PM
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Ah yes, the diaresis will relieve those confused chicken farmers! A thousand thanks to The New Yorker.
In light of that...
> "Texts from this period show Altman coördinating closely with Nadella"
Why did you make the odd choice of a diaresis on this word?