x4740NtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world·4 months agoedit-24 months agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-squarearrow-up1166arrow-down148message-square144file-textfedilink
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squarePeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?x4740NtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world·4 months agoedit-24 months agomessage-square144file-textfedilink
minus-squareleftzeroarrow-up2arrow-down0·4 months agolinkfedilinkI 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💫arrow-up3arrow-down0·4 months agolinkfedilinkIt’s from french although naive is also a valid spelling.
minus-squareintensely_humanarrow-up1arrow-down0·4 months agolinkfedilinkHonestly 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”