Post #1334859

2026-04-06 11:33 UTC

Explain to me what good loaning the diacritics does if speakers of English have no idea how to pronounce them and just wing it whatever which way, butchering the actual words.

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@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-06 11:42

"Naive" would be pronounced like "nave," i.e. the entrance of a church. "Naïve" is pronounced like "nah-eve." "Resume" is pronounced like "ree-zoom" and means to unpause or continue something. "Resumé" is pronounced like "reh-zoo-may," and means a document that briefly outlines your education and work experience to a potential employer. Proper nouns like place names and people names use the original spelling out of respect for people and culture. How would you like it if your name was "John" and you went to a different country where they don't have the letter J, so they decided to write your name as "Yahn" without consulting you?

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