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>Humans have incredibly complicated writing systems

Not only that, there isn't even agreement about what's correct all the time!

>it doesn't understand how to spell a bunch of common English words like naïve or café, pretty disappointing.

A perfect example of this, since I would argue English doesn't have any diacritics at all. So the use of café is code switching. :)



https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/resume, for example, makes the distinction between "resume" and "résumé" pretty clear.


Not a New Yorker writer, I see....


Thank God!

(seriously, every time I read an article from them I get distracted/nerd sniped by their diaeresis use...)


It's still "rôle" to me, damnit.




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