Re: Ignorant people & diacritics
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 4, 2004, 1:17 |
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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:07:13PM -0500, Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
> 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").
Except that those have now been borrowed into English, and therefore
get spelt Englishly - and we don't have umlauts in English, only
the all-but-abandoned use of the trema/diaresis mark to indicate
syllabicity, as in "naïve", "coöperate", et sim.
If you're talking about the German words, then yes, use
the umlaut or the -e spelling, but if you're just speaking English:
"Man, that dude is so uber! Which is weird, 'cause I'm totally not, and
he's like my doppelganger..."
. . . okay, for certain values of "English" . . .
:)
-Marcos