DeathcultAesthete
DeathcultAesthete t1_isucwf7 wrote
Reply to comment by Netroth in "In other words, an important lesson we can draw from Hans Blumenberg’s writings on myth is that the dangerous political myths of our own times as well as those of the past can only be countered by inventing new myths, telling better stories, and writing more convincing histories." by Maxwellsdemon17
Diacritics are not part of the English alphabet, so it’s just alternate spelling.
DeathcultAesthete t1_iqred5r wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Utopia”: meaning ‘no place’; from Greek: οὐ (not’) and τόπος (‘place’) by Sphaerocypraea
// indicate phonemes, the way a sound is presented within the speaker’s mind. <> indicate orthography. <u> in English is pronounced as /ju/, whereas <oo> as /u/. This distinction illustrates how orthography and pronunciation are two different things.
DeathcultAesthete t1_iqr8vy2 wrote
Reply to comment by HamaHamaWamaSlama in Utopia”: meaning ‘no place’; from Greek: οὐ (not’) and τόπος (‘place’) by Sphaerocypraea
Following the IPA, <ou> is indeed pronounced as /u/.
DeathcultAesthete t1_isuryxr wrote
Reply to comment by death_of_gnats in "In other words, an important lesson we can draw from Hans Blumenberg’s writings on myth is that the dangerous political myths of our own times as well as those of the past can only be countered by inventing new myths, telling better stories, and writing more convincing histories." by Maxwellsdemon17
They’re not the arbiters of English.