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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 08, 2022, 06:27:33 pm ---I believe TNY also uses a diacritical mark (?--not sure if that's what it's called) in coordinate rather than a hyphen or no punctuation at all.
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--- Quote ---A diaeresis is a pair of dots that appear over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is pronounced separately from an adjacent vowel. For example, in English oo is generally pronounced as a single vowel sound, usually either the /u/ sound in boot or the /ʊ/ in book. The New Yorker puts a diaeresis over the repeated vowel in words like cooperate to show that those two o?s are pronounced as two distinct vowels. This also applies to other words with repeated vowels like reelect.
https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2020/03/24/umlauts-diaereses-and-the-new-yorker/
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But that's just fussy punctuation, I think, not the same as letting writers use British English. Which actually wouldn't be a terrible idea, especially if the writer's Britishness is relevant to the piece.
But then what? Would they let Black writers write in an Ebonics voice if that comes naturally? Might not be a bad idea either.
Not expecting it in TNY, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are hipster-y magazines that do that.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 09, 2022, 01:46:56 pm ---But that's just fussy punctuation.
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I like that characterization. :D
BTW, did you read the article about that celebrity chef? She was quoted using fuck, shit, and bitch all in one sentence. :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
I highly recommend the article about Dan Bongino in the Jan. 3 & 10 issue. Yes, it's a duty article, and it's hard going, but I think this is a duty everyone should undertake. Evan Osnos makes a very good point: "Spend several months immersed in American talk radio and you'll come away with the sense that the violence of January 6th was not the end of something but the beginning." I also get the impression Osnos thinks it's foolish for liberals to wring their hands over Facebook and TikTok when they should be paying attention to and being be concerned about what's going on in the world of extreme-right-wing talk radio.
Jeff Wrangler:
To my own surprise, I'm actually caught up on my magazines. I'm reading the Jan. 17 issue now.
Partly at least, this is because I simply stopped reading everything, particularly anything that had to do with art, the performing arts, theatre, and movies.
serious crayons:
In an article today I saw the word "focussed." Do they use archaic/non-American spellings just to be obstinate and quirky? Would Mr. Shawn roll in his grave if they spelled it with one S, yet they're OK with "fuck" now?
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