Biden is unpopular? Must be TikTok brainwashing our youth with Hamas propaganda
Biden is unpopular? Must be TikTok brainwashing our youth with Hamas propaganda
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reëlection
I can't believe they are still doing that shit.
When I was a teenager many decades ago I asked my mom who was my google - "Why do they use the two dots?" And my mom said "Because it's pretentious. And The New Yorker is pretentious."
39 0 ReplyIt doesn't even make sense. English doesn't have umlauts, and even if they're pulling on its Germanic roots German doesn't have an 'e' with an umlaut.
22 0 Replyit's a diaeresis for indicating the two es are seperate syllables.
30 0 ReplyI'm sorry comrade, but we need to shove you into the communal locker for possessing this nerd knowledge.
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ё exists in Russian alphabet, ergo this poster is a Kremlin agent.
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I like the two dots.
9 0 ReplyAren't the umlauts even on the wrong letter? If it was accented, that would mean it was a long "eee" sound, so this would be pronounced reh-eeee-lehck-shun, wouldn't it?
5 0 ReplyI'm stealing somebody else's comment...
it's a diaeresis for indicating the two es are seperate syllables.
In other words it's confirming it's pronounced re-election and not ree-lection.
12 0 Replybut we already have that, it's called "re-election"
these MFs really trying to fuck with the language and think we won't notice.
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