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<< But you'll have to admit that German looks great as a written language. All those umlauts and unexpected h's everywhere. It's far classier than English. >>
I think those things make it look ugly.
I think those things make it look ugly.
<<<< But you'll have to admit that German looks great as a written language. All those umlauts and unexpected h's everywhere. It's far classier than English. >>
I think those things make it look ugly. >
But the umlaut is nice and symmetric and has a "cool" look to it, unlike most of the accents found in French and Spanish, for example.
There used to be something called the American Umlaut Society. I wonder what happened to them -- they don't seem to have much of a web presence anymore?
I think those things make it look ugly. >
But the umlaut is nice and symmetric and has a "cool" look to it, unlike most of the accents found in French and Spanish, for example.
There used to be something called the American Umlaut Society. I wonder what happened to them -- they don't seem to have much of a web presence anymore?
In many varieties of English it may be appropriate for umlauts to be adopted. However, the vowel fronting of many dialects exhibit complimentary distribution, thus the pronunciation of the word "food" as /fyd/ or /f}d/ (how I tend to pronounce it) is not distinct from /fud/.
On this note, one of my German friends commented on how I consistently said /klYg/ rather than /klUg/.
On this note, one of my German friends commented on how I consistently said /klYg/ rather than /klUg/.
Antimoon is the best language discussion site, because there are some really interested and educated people discussing here, and discussing anonymously in full freedom. Trolls etc. bring some life into the scientific debates, and they are by far better than personal attacs like in Langcafe (e. g. André´s behavior against Paulette) and other registration sites.
Long live Guest, K.T., greg, Skippy, JLK, PARISIEN, Brennus, Colette, American etc.!
Long live Guest, K.T., greg, Skippy, JLK, PARISIEN, Brennus, Colette, American etc.!
"But the umlaut is nice and symmetric and has a "cool" look to it"
Symmetric is not nice and cool, it is the asymmetricity of the golden cut that is nice and cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
Symmetric is not nice and cool, it is the asymmetricity of the golden cut that is nice and cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio
I expect Guest meant Pauline. She was as mad as a hatter but her posts were the best, really entertaining and funny plus she spoke quite a few languages. Andre launched a complete character assassination against her which was pretty mean considering her age and what not.
<<In many varieties of English it may be appropriate for umlauts to be adopted.>>
Back before computers became so popular, I think the diaeresis was used more in English. IIRC, my high school chemistry book usea a diaeresis over the second "o" in "Coordinate". You'd often a diaeresis in words like:
- oology, oocyte, etc
- zoology
- coop (to distinguish it from coop)
- Bootes
- coordinate
- naive
- vacuum (on occcasions)
Back before computers became so popular, I think the diaeresis was used more in English. IIRC, my high school chemistry book usea a diaeresis over the second "o" in "Coordinate". You'd often a diaeresis in words like:
- oology, oocyte, etc
- zoology
- coop (to distinguish it from coop)
- Bootes
- coordinate
- naive
- vacuum (on occcasions)