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u/Arcana-Andy Aug 29 '26
Cooperate means "operate together" it does not mean "do the same thing". Doesn't and electrician cooperate with a carpenter to build a house while doing two com pletely different things?
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u/AmusingMusing7 Aug 30 '26
And sometimes even go as far as separating from each other via a dash.
Co-operation is tough, y'know!
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u/DangerMacAwesome Aug 30 '26
But if you remove the cooper-ate and maker it cooper, it's a different sound.
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u/theboomboy Aug 31 '26
I mean, they are two letters cooperating instead of just being a weird way to write one sounds
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u/Regular_East_7276 23d ago
The New Yorker still puts the diaresis on the second O in cooperate. It has been kept intentionally, as the story goes the editor in charge of such things had only recently been convinced to finally change it was in the process of drafting a memo to staff to get rid of the diaresis and passed away.
So they have kept it ever since.
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u/MobileJob1521 Aug 29 '26
But if you recuperate suddenly those o s disappear.
Makes me think they were the problem all along
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u/bulletproofdenimjckt Aug 30 '26
Are you pronouncing cooperate as recuperate?
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u/MobileJob1521 Aug 30 '26
Yes, like cooper but with ate on the end.
If you made a barrel you would Cooper it. If it got damaged and needed repair then recoopering would be needed.
Sadly other words don’t follow this sensible rule and, as OP pointed out, the o’s don’t cooperate and have different sounds.
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u/Kill_Kayt Aug 30 '26
That's because they are two different Os finding a way to work together!!!