content warning: Zack Davis. so of course this is merely the intro to Zack’s unquenchable outrage at Yudkowsky using the pronouns that someone wants to be called by

  • gerikson@awful.systems
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    8 months ago

    I don’t believe this is a correct use of a diaeresis: “preöccupied” (and not just because it looks ridiculous if you know Swedish)

    • YouKnowWhoTheFuckIAM@awful.systems
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      8 months ago

      If you thought English was French it would phonetically read something like “pruhccupied” without it, or even more phonetically “prëccupied” (using, funnily enough, the same dots but as in Albanian orthography, which happen to capture the sound quite well). Does this only raise further questions? Well yes.