TIL that some people spell cooperate with an "ö".

As a Swedish native it really breaks my reading of an English word, but apparently it's supposed to indicate that you should pronounce each "o" separately. Language is fun.

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cap11235 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

As a native English speaker, it also breaks my reading of "cooperate". Never seen it before. I think parent is just annoyingly eccentric for the sake of it.

	▲	anonymars 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Most commonly seen in naïve, and the New Yorker
	▲	Ndymium 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I admit that latter part is just for whimsy, because I think it looks fun. The dashes I like for their aesthetics and if that makes me eccentric then so be it. They shouldn't distract anyone's reading, or at least they didn't use to before LLMs.

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Freak_NL 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Using umlauts to signal that a vowel is pronounced separately is common in a number of languages (like Dutch).

	▲	unwind 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah, I know. It's just confusing for us poor Swedes since "ö" in Swedish is a separate letter with its own pronunciation, and not a somehow-modified "o". Always takes an extra couple of seconds to remember how "Motörhead" is supposed to be said. :)
	▲	1718627440 3 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		But it's not used as an Umlaut here, that's exactly what's confusing. Here this is used as a trema/diaeresis.
	▲	inejge 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That kind of use technically makes it a diaeresis, not an umlaut.