Obscure Or Obvious?

[debka_notion]

Do you know what a doppelganger is? More accurately, how troubled should I be that many of my rabbinical school classmates a. don't know what a doppelganger is, and b. try to spell it as two words?

Just a thought from the insane place in my mind that is me trying to avoid exams...

Comments

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

English does have diacriticals for fully absorbed words, and with reason. The words resume and résumé, for example, are pronounced differently and have completely different meanings.

There's also a convention, mostly disused today (though The New Yorker still employs it) of writing diaereses to avoid compound vowel confusions. To boot: coöperateinstead of cooperate, since the latter looks as if it ought to be pronounced KOO-pə-rate.

[margavriel.livejournal.com]

And yet "resume" is still an acceptable English spelling for "résumé" (though I would always use the accented form).