• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Aren’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?

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      9 months ago

      I’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.

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        9 months ago

        but we already have that, it’s called “re-election”

        these MFs really trying to fuck with the language and think we won’t notice.