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Re: [OT] Diareses (Was: Re: Redirectors / link shorteners...)

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J. P. Gilliver

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Nov 22, 2023, 8:10:14 PM11/22/23
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In message <1qkmgi6.12rsaw18n133qN%snip...@gmail.com> at Thu, 23 Nov
2023 00:25:24, Sn!pe <snip...@gmail.com> writes
>J. P. Gilliver <G6...@255soft.uk> wrote:
>
>> In message <pan$374e$6c048505$df06a6b3$731f...@invalid.invalid> at Wed,
>> 22 Nov 2023 22:39:50, Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluema...@invalid.invalid>
>> writes
>> >Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> >
>> >> Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluema...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>Agreeďng to disagree is a great way to permanently stagnate human
>> >> ^
>> >>>progress.
>> >>
>> >> I suggest that it's not possible to type a lower-case i with diaeresis
>> >> accidentally. You did it deliberately to create a followup pointlessly
>> >> in UTF-8. You've gone full-on troll.
>> >>
>> >> I'm declaring a seamusing.
>> >
>> >I am not a troll. (Why does everybody keep accusing me of that? Maybe
>> >it's because tone carries poorly over text, and it would be more
>> >obvious i'm not a troll if this were a vocal medium.) It is simply a
>> >part of my [written] dialect that i use diäreses for vowel
>> >multisyllabification disambiguation. If it were causing problems, then
>>
>> I see what you're trying to do, but I think most people know how to say
>> "agreeing".
>>
>[...]
>
>Is it naďve to differ? 0 >
>I agree, 'agreeing' is common usage, as is 'naďve'. IMO it's just
>another quirk of the wonderfully rich language we call English.
>Next up: a discussion on Britain and the USA being two nations
>divided by a common language...

That's a rich seam!
>
>As this subthread is OT here in e-s.support, I've set f'ups to e-s talk.
>I've also changed the Subject to 'Diareses'.

I've added APIHNA, which is a friendly language group (discusses more
than just its [!] title).
>
>Yes, I'm bored; how could you tell?...
>
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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