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by napoleoncomplex 3431 days ago
The comments below explain a bit of the reasoning, but I agree. In cases where there is no alternative meaning to the word, this makes for a confusing read, especially since ö is a letter with a completely different sound in several European languages (German, and I think Norwegian and Danish, and my local dialect of Slovenian :P), pronounced as "oe"

If you want to imagine how I read a word like that, this video is a helpful guide to pronounciation of ö: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr-mCMtISfA

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Must be even worse since ö had different pronunciations in different languages.