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As a non-native speaker, coöperate does NOT help, it makes it harder to recognizes otherwise familiar words.

Especially when one comes from a language where ö is a completely different letter than o.

I'm not a fan of dieresis for this specifically because it's too confusing due to its frequent use for other things in other languages. But there are other ways to indicate it.

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