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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by runarberg on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:08PM (#47856006)
Completely unrelated, but I am curious about your keyboard layout since you mistyped ö instead of - these two symbols are side by side in the Icelandic layout, and the ö is where - in the English (US) layout. As such this is a common type-o for people who regularly switch between the Icelandic and the English (US) layout (source: I am that person). I am curious whether more layouts where that could be common.
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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by bulletsvshumans on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:16PM (#47856105)
This is also a stylistic choice that the New Yorker magazine uses for words with double vowels where you pronounce each one separately, like coöperate, reëlect, preëminent, and naïve. So possibly intentional.
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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by lucaslazarus on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:39PM (#47856383)
Yes, this is exactly correct, and I will die on this hill. Additionally, I don't like the way a hyphenated "techno-optimism" looks and "technOOPtimism" is a bit too on-the-nose.
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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by runarberg on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:57PM (#47856579)
That makes sense[1] but it prompts the obvious question: does this style write it as typeö then?

1: Though personally I hate it, I just cannot not read those as completely different vowels (in particular ï → [i:] or the ee in need; ë → [je:] or the first e here; and ö → [ø] or the e in her)

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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by lucaslazarus on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @09:20PM (#47857469)
No. Firstly because it is spelled “typo.” Secondly you typically use the diaeresis to tell the reader to not confuse it with a similarly spelled sound or diphthong. So it tells a reader that “reëlect” is not pronounced REEL-ect, “coöperate” is not COOP-uh-ray-t, and “naïve” is not NAY-v.
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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by losvedir on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @09:43PM (#47857661)
Because written English makes so much sense normally. God forbid someone has to figure out the ambiguous pronunciation of those particular words. It seems like a silly thing to provide extra guidance on to me.
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Re:OpenAI Livestream: ChatGPT Images 2.0 by heisenzombie on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:20PM (#47856149)
I suspect the diaresis was intentional, in “New Yorker” style.

https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-...

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