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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.401-402 [SLACK_000615] · slack_pm:msg:04144

Date: 2021-01-15 06:27
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Robert F. Garry

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Me to! Umlaut, also known as diaeresis, i-umlaut or - wait for it - i-mutation, is a mark that consists of two dots ( ̈)placed over a letter, usually a vowel, to indicate a different quality. Only one word I believe in Webster's American English [I know other English out there] that still allows the use of the mark as a variant: *naïveté.* Ironically, the root *naïve* is a French adjective meaning "natural, just born" just like SARS-CoV-2.

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2021-01-15 06:27 Robert F. Garry

Me to! Umlaut, also known as diaeresis, i-umlaut or - wait for it - i-mutation, is a mark that consists of two dots ( ̈)placed over a letter, usually a vowel, to indicate a different quality. Only one word I believe in Webster's American English [I know other English out there] that still allows the use of the mark as a variant: *naïveté.* Ironically, the root *naïve* is a French adjective meaning "natural, just born" just like SARS-CoV-2.
2021-01-15 06:40 Robert F. Garry open

Use *naïveté* in a sentence: It is the height of *naïveté* to claim that one can infer the evolutionary origins of the RmYN02 S1/S2 cleavage site by performing a simple nucleotide alignment as advanced by some proponents of the lab origin hypothesis [1]. 1. The genetic structure of SARSnCoVn2 does not rule out a laboratory originSARSnCOVn2 chimeric structure and furin cleavage site might be the result of genetic manipulationRossana Segreto Yuri Deigin

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