• El Barto
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    17 days ago

    Would the dieresis be placed on top of the s in lineöfsight? Or would it be for vowels only?

    Also, by your coöperative pronunciation example, people would be mispronouncing reëlect.

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      14 days ago

      It’s vowels only, and that’s funny. I hadn’t thought about it for my hypothetical “lineofsight” word.

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      15 days ago

      Also, by your coöperative pronunciation example, people would be mispronouncing reëlect.

      I’m not sure what you mean.

      It’s pronounced co-operative and re-elect. Coöp needs it to not sound like “coop” as in chicken coop. Reëlect needs it to not sound like “reel” as in fishing reel.

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        015 days ago

        You are right in that specific case, but I was thinking of another case of pronunciation: where to put the stress.

        Co-operative —> co ó perative Re-elect ----> re e léct.

        But maybe OP wasn’t referring to that.

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          15 days ago

          Diaereses don’t indicate stress. They indicate separately pronounced vowels.

          When you say OP, who are you talking about? The author of the post was talking about hyphens, and nothing about stresssed syllables, and I’m the one who brought up diaereses, and I wasn’t referring to stressed syllables, either.