Re: Ignorant people & diacritics
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 4, 2004, 0:07 |
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:17:27 +0100, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Is it worse to leave out diacritcs totally or to put them just
>anywhere?
With German umlauts (äöü), both is equally bad, as an umlaut can totally
change the meaning of a word.
Examples:
lugen: to look stealthily from a hiding place
lügen: to tell a lie
Mose: the guy with the ark from the Bible
Möse: a nasty word for the female genitalia
arger: worse
Ärger: trouble
You see, leaving out the umlaut dots is a *very* bad idea!
It always really irks me when I see some English speakers writing "uber" or
"doppleganger" (instead of "über" and "doppelgänger").
--
Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton
official Choton homepage:
http://www.choton.org
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