Watching NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND with the kid (Marian's first time), and I always forget how buff Nausicaä is. That princess be low-key swole.
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The two dots in English mean a diaresis far more often than they mean something else (it's only called an "umlaut" if it's the specific thing in German to indicate a fronted vowel)
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It's why the correct way to spell Chloe and Zoe shit so on is technically Chloë and Zoë etc, even though we usually don't bother because everyone knows The New Yorker does that really annoying thing where they spell "cooperate" "coöperate"
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Ironically, in Greek, they probably would have elided it some, and it definitely wouldn’t be a vowel that would have have sounded like a long a to a modern English speaker, since that would be an eta rather than the two alphas in her name.
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Well yeah Like the thing in The Good Place where Chidi asks Hypatia if she minds being called "high-PAY-shuh" and not "ooh-POT-ee-ah" and she just shrugs and says she's Patty now
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