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It's really odd seeing an umlaut in English writing, as in, not for a foreign nameplace either. Example: reënactment. Such a word used to be hyphenated, or still is. I've only seen The New Yorker publication use that diacritic.
Saturday, 21-Mar-15 14:28:09 UTC from web-
@awlshouldhaveknown Well you know what the say.
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@awlshouldhaveknown wait, that's something people are doing in English now?
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@rarity maybe just the editor in cheif at New Yorker. That might be in lieu of a hyphen due to their typeset too, but I used to see it in their hard copies alao.
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@awlshouldhaveknown papaya hyphens yo.
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@schwarzen that hyphenetration is no longer acceptable?
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@awlshouldhaveknown It's weird but I actually like the concept since it makes sense. Definitely not going to catch on though. Good luck getting Americans to use accents on letters. My eye twitches every time I read "Jalapeno"
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@awlshouldhaveknown Indeed, the New Yorker is pioneering a new dialect, we can join them and rewrite history.
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@rarity It's spelled "Kañ", not "Kanye"
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@ceruleanspark wouldn't that be Kañe
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@rarity No, it wouldn't be bad, I think it would be pretty good. c:
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@rarity According to my mediocre formal spanish education, ñ is just pronounced n-yay
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До свидания
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@ceruleanspark It is, but... sometimes not? I guess it depends on dialect? At least in Hispanic communities I've lived in (including my relatives) they say baño/año/mañana like "Ban-yo/an-yo/man-yan-a". Maybe in Spain they enunciate better? The last time I studied the actual language was in Freshman year of high school (even though I'm still semi-fluent)
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@rarity Spanish vs Mexican I guess?
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@ceruleanspark not so much Mexican as carribean/central American in my personal experience. Although Mexican spanish is very similar.
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@schwarzen don't get any on ya
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@awlshouldhaveknown I will try friend, I will try.
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A follow-up thought on this: shouldn't it be spelled 'coïncidence'??
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I might start using diaereses for this purpose from now on.
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