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En and em dashes are easily accessible on both my laptop's and phone's keyboard layouts and I like using them, just like putting the ö in coöperate. It's sad if
by Ndymium 1y ago
En and em dashes are easily accessible on both my laptop's and phone's keyboard layouts and I like using them, just like putting the ö in coöperate. It's sad if this now makes me look like a robot and I have to use the wrong dashes to be more "human".
- unwind 1y agoTIL 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.
- cap11235 1y agoAs 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 1y agoMost commonly seen in naïve, and the New Yorker
- Ndymium 1y agoI 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.
- Freak_NL 1y agoUsing umlauts to signal that a vowel is pronounced separately is common in a number of languages (like Dutch).
- unwind 1y agoYeah, 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. :)
- inejge 1y agoThat kind of use technically makes it a diaeresis, not an umlaut.
- 1718627440 1y agoBut it's not used as an Umlaut here, that's exactly what's confusing. Here this is used as a trema/diaeresis.
- jnwatson 1y agoEm dashes are widely used. The diaeresis is only used in The New Yorker and those that copied their style.