@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • edit-212 days agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-square137fedilinkarrow-up1167file-text
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minus-square@leftzerolink2•11 days agoI honestly wasn’t aware naïve had a dieresis in English. I mean, it makes complete sense for it to have one in languages that use them, but I wasn’t aware it was a loanword (from French or Normand, I assume).
minus-squareWIZARD POPE💫linkfedilink3•11 days agoIt’s from french although naive is also a valid spelling.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•11 days agoHonestly it pisses me off that autocorrect adds all the beauty dots to it when I just try to write “naive”
I honestly wasn’t aware naïve had a dieresis in English.
I mean, it makes complete sense for it to have one in languages that use them, but I wasn’t aware it was a loanword (from French or Normand, I assume).
It’s from french although naive is also a valid spelling.
Honestly it pisses me off that autocorrect adds all the beauty dots to it when I just try to write “naive”