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        1 day ago

        There’s no umlaut in english, so it doesn’t signify any sound in english words, it’s merely a stylistic choice, kind of like writing a z at the end of a word instead of an s.

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          19 hours ago

          there’s the alternate spelling of naïve and it’s derived words, but they are rarely used nowadays

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          I disagree though, when you adopt from other languages the sounds follow. Of course designers don’t feel like that, but they would be wrong.

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              20 hours ago

              That’s actually exactly how it works and how language evolves…foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There’s already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.

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                13 hours ago

                But that’s not what we’re talking about. It’s extremely extremely rare for a language to adopt a new written character.

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        13 hours ago

        I could have gotten -100 votes on this and it would’ve been worth it for “deep hair gel lore” lmao