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@Cliges is reënable French? I just came about it and as far as I can see it actually isn't French, but just people wanting to look posh, but perhaps I'm wrong and it actually comes from French and as such is justified as being used?
Not a copy of the Petit Robert to be found in Denmark?
Kind of heartwarming that you'd address this question to me.
The umlaut here is to indicate that the second "e" isn't silent. Not French.
It's the New Yorker which came up with using the umlaut?
I don't know what the Petit Robert is. Plus I don't read French so even if I did I wouldn't be able to read it.
Why would the second e be silent? Also I take it that reënable is the proper form then? Like élite and naïve being proper forms.
Aren't you a physicist by trade? I'm willing to wager a princely sum that you can tease out alphabetical order in a French dictionary.
Wagon, if you're willing to give up your honour, I think there's an opportunity to make some money here.
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Two e's in a row in English is often pronounced as a single e (see agree, seep, or deep). Enable is a native English word, and thus is spelled sans diacritics (to the point that I've never seen reënable in my life and the forum thinks it's a misspelling), whereas elite and naïve are both French imports and thus are sometimes written as loaned, if people care enough. (Rarely on the first, 50/50 on the second.)
Umlaut comes from the Germanic languages; Wagon speaks Danish, the most Danish language ever invented. We have to talk down to him, you see. He won't understand our pretty Franco-Hellenic words. (We'll agree to keep our own native language, bastard offspring of French and West Germanic with hints of Welsh syntax and significant Greco-Roman verbiage, not to mention borrowings from virtually every other language, that she is out of it.)
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The funny thing, honestly, is that I was struggling to come up with words that had two e's in them. Forgot I had already written one!
Recall the time we discussed circumcision?
The kind folks at the below-linked site have summarized some of the perspectives on the matter:
http://www.circumcisiondebate.org/
Some of my personal favorites:
"My husband is attractive to me in his natural state, so I just don't know why we should circumcise our son and go through all that drama. I think natural is probably better in this situation, but I want him to be accepted by his friends and lovers, too."
"I'm a normal circumcised guy and I want my son to be normal too. He should look like me. It's part of being a man to be circumcised and women expect it. Guys who are not circumcised get a lot of grief in the locker room and I don't want my son to get treated that way."
"I am circumcised and my partner is not, so it’s easy for us to compare. In seeing how much more pleasure he experiences, I realize how much I've lost."
"My doctor is asking about it and insurance pays for it, so it must be a good thing health-wise. Responsible parents get it done early for its long-term benefits. Anyway, it's cleaner and better-looking."
"In my country, we don't do this, but we want to fit in and be good Americans. Maybe it's the right thing to do for our son so he can become fully American."
The kind folks at the below-linked site have summarized some of the perspectives on the matter:
http://www.circumcisiondebate.org/
Some of my personal favorites:
"My husband is attractive to me in his natural state, so I just don't know why we should circumcise our son and go through all that drama. I think natural is probably better in this situation, but I want him to be accepted by his friends and lovers, too."
"I'm a normal circumcised guy and I want my son to be normal too. He should look like me. It's part of being a man to be circumcised and women expect it. Guys who are not circumcised get a lot of grief in the locker room and I don't want my son to get treated that way."
"I am circumcised and my partner is not, so it’s easy for us to compare. In seeing how much more pleasure he experiences, I realize how much I've lost."
"My doctor is asking about it and insurance pays for it, so it must be a good thing health-wise. Responsible parents get it done early for its long-term benefits. Anyway, it's cleaner and better-looking."
"In my country, we don't do this, but we want to fit in and be good Americans. Maybe it's the right thing to do for our son so he can become fully American."
Whatever happened to that "indivisibility" they talk about in the Pledge of Allegiance?
They don't address that in greater detail.
But they were thoughtful enough to offer helpful jumping-off points from which to broach your decision to cut or not with your son when he's old enough to appreciate that some are partially flayed and others not.
Come to think of it, perhaps the decision-making process should be democratized: one member, one vote.
This is a question meriting no small amount of deliberation. Indeed, the best part of the site is the photo demonstrating what to expect when you tell your family.
Judging from the officious expressions of the grandparents, explaining that junior's skin stays secured is as grave as though mother were confessing to being a coke mule or having poisoned the beloved family cat.
And one cannot help but note the prominence of the nipples sported by our pater familias...