• Beacon
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          415 days ago

          There’s no umlaut in english, so it doesn’t signify any sound in english words, it’s merely a stylistic choice, kind of like writing a z at the end of a word instead of an s.

          • lurch (he/him)
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            214 days ago

            there’s the alternate spelling of naïve and it’s derived words, but they are rarely used nowadays

          • @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            315 days ago

            I disagree though, when you adopt from other languages the sounds follow. Of course designers don’t feel like that, but they would be wrong.

            • Beacon
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              114 days ago

              I’m pretty sure that’s not actually how language works.

              • @ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                14 days ago

                That’s actually exactly how it works and how language evolves…foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There’s already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.

                • Beacon
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                  114 days ago

                  But that’s not what we’re talking about. It’s extremely extremely rare for a language to adopt a new written character.

        • @tacofox@lemm.eeOP
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          314 days ago

          I could have gotten -100 votes on this and it would’ve been worth it for “deep hair gel lore” lmao