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I thought the word and the definition sounded beautiful, but then I also learned that it was coined in 2017 and has been accused of imposing outside culture. Namely, here is a criticism I found on Twitter and Reddit but without further attribution or detail:

Just wanted to share and see what the community thought about it.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even English has a handful of words with accents. "Naïve" comes to mind. Of course, most people ignore those accents.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IIRC the diaeresis is actually optional and "naive" is actually okay too. Technically even "cooperative" initially took one on the second O.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's all optional now, really. People also don't use æroplane as a spelling anymore either.

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, the "Académie française" (French language authority) dropped a bunch of accents with their "nouvelle grammaire". A notable example are words with a circumflex accent on the O, like "hôpital" or "hôpital". The accent was present to replace the "os" in the old spellings (hospital/hostel, the S was carried over from Latin), didn't change the pronunciation in any way.