@x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • edit-21 year agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-square144arrow-up1169file-text
arrow-up1169message-squarePeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?@x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • edit-21 year agomessage-square144file-text
minus-square@leftzero@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilink2•1 year 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•1 year agoIt’s from french although naive is also a valid spelling.
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 year 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”