Fabian Giesen
HOT TAKE: In German, "Beelzebub" should really be written with a New Yorker diaresis.
Sep 7, 2025 at 6:10amWeb
Show threadFabian GiesenSep 7, 2025
(It's be-EL-ze-bub but when it's written as it usually is, German speakers will default to BEEL-ze-bub, which is wrong)
Show threadLRSep 7, 2025
@rygorous be eel, ze bub
Show threadKraftwerk-Das Model CollapseSep 7, 2025
@lritter @rygorous be eel, do crimes
Show threadKraftwerk-Das Model CollapseSep 7, 2025
@lritter @rygorous drei Chines*innen mit dem Be:ëlzebub
Show threadJakob HunsballeSep 7, 2025
@rygorous German speakers reveal themselves with “determine” : Dieter Main
Show threadManfredSep 9, 2025
@rygorous Ich werde ab jetzt "beeilen" falsch aussprechen.
Show threadPhilip TrettnerSep 7, 2025
@rygorous I wasn't familiar with the New Yorker version so I thought you meant "ü". That would make it match better the average age of the Lord of the Flies cast.
Show threadFabian GiesenSep 7, 2025
@artificialmind Beëlzebub. The New Yorker is somewhat infamous in the US for using diaresis to mark split points on double vowels, so for example, they write coöperation (since it's co-operation not coop-eration) and reëlection (since it's re-election not reel-ection)
Show threadFabian GiesenSep 7, 2025
@artificialmind it's not that this practice is unheard of in general, but it's somewhat archaic and the New Yorker, infamously, still has it in their style guide to this day
Show threadJonathan👣🚲Sep 7, 2025
@rygorous @artificialmind Pretending it’s still New Amsterdam. Such a dieresis is standard Dutch.
Show threadLRSep 7, 2025
@rygorous @artificialmind in saxony we also call it coöperation