The death of the umlaut?

[teenmod12]

Ich Hab Dich Lieb Mine Umlaut!!!! Und was ist das musik?

[OverWilliam]

What is the name of the music played at the beginning and end of the video? Me likey. ;)

[baiNEKO]

echoing the "linguistics nerd" below: more symbols = better. It's not hard to add these to a keyboard; many countries do this (France, Finland, China...) Besides this, I believe the umlaut is an important marker of a special kind of vowel -- These vowels are rare in the world's languages (they tend to disappear over time, and not reapper). I also dig the aesthetics of the umlaut. see below, re: spelling reform. cheers

[sobeita]

A letter with the diaeresis is a perfectly good letter, but like many other symbols, it is not allowed in URLs. Try typing a space: it becomes "% 2 0". It's nothing against the umlaut, nothing against Germans, it's a simple matter of the text transfer protocol. : ]

õ: a Hungarian letter, O + the double acute. : ]

[Ilkamy]

Hi mate

The most wonderful thing in the German language is Dialect and ä ö ü & the lovely ß

...it is not the same then ss, except in Switzerland, they killed the ß :-(

The wonderful Greek letter ß - I love it!

That makes a language unique!

There is a different between Maße and Masse! ;-)

I enjoyed your video... Thanks!

Kind regards to HH and to Aotearoa...

;-)) I didn't know that there is a Town called NZ (in your profil!) ;-)) loud laugh... you Kiwis are funny... ;-)) Read you... Regards

[babeylove008]

Fenzy Schmenzi xDD

[Dud3man427]

how do u make an umlaut

[cachmeifyoucan]

omfg ! that's sooo funny :D

i laughed all the time

[checker80th]

Apfel - Äpfel ...really funny !!

Even for a german ! I love my umlauts !!!

[LedZepLive]

I'd watch a video of this woman reciting the alphabet, in German, English, any language.

She's charming, smart and funny.

I think I love her.

[Aeoen]

Before I write this, I should say that I am actually a linguistics nerd. Hüsker Dü is actually there for pronunciation purposes, as it means "Do You Remember?" in Danish and Norwegian. I personally think that English should have a lot more pronunciation symbols, as it would clear up the pronunciation of many words. Unfortunately, the only use of the umlaut in the English language (although it ceases to be used now) was in words like "coöperate" to express that it's not all one sound.

[baiNEKO]

excellent point about the potential for symbols to clear up spelling nightmares of English! Adoption of symbols would probably be a lot easier to implement than full-blown spelling reform..... When I was in early elementary school, my teachers used diacritics & symbols (including umlaut) to demonstrate distinct vowel pronunciation in standard American English; it's one of my strongest memories of school... Now I'm studying linguistics. P.S. your name looks in need of an umlaut or 2 :)

[trygvefileserver]

how about øå? I say, keep it outta the latin alfabet. that includes stuff like ph

[The1111MegaStars]

Machtlos :D:D:D

[MaiaRikae]

download the free program called "de-key", it lets you get umlauts and other German characters easily.

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[missverstaendnis101]

Thanks for the tip!

[ThBrian]

@MaiaRikae Where should i download it?

[Tatti77]

Next thing you wanna steal the Turks their Ös and Üs!

[olivenderella]

ÄÜÖ lol

[Redfrettchen]

In Finnish, umlauts are equal citizens of the alphabet. But I figure it would be kind of annoying to have for example "Apfel" at the start and "Änderung" at the end of the dictionary.

[paisleyduck]

ä ö ü!

[itekisan]

Just a lil' comment: it is easier to understand umlauts when you know that the old German script had the lowercase 'e' look like two vertical lines next to each other. Jamming this to the preceding vowel would be graphically unsound, so instead the ligatures put the 'e' over the vowels. The two lines are still used in some people's handwriting, while in print they've been replaced by dots.

[WeirdDutchGuy]

Since I don't think my last comment got through, here it is again: "I'm with you in your campaing. Even though German is my least favorite class in school.... Why can't the plural form of Gast be Gaste or Gasten? Now I have to memorize it's Gäste!!!!!

[wurstbrot69]

you're right, that sucks. luckily i don't have to learn german. it's my mother language! lucky me, english is so much easier to learn :D

[WeirdDutchGuy]

Completely with you, though I must say German is my least favorite class. Especially because I have to memorize when and when not you should add an Umlaut for a plural form. Why can't it be Gaste instead of Gäste! But still, I think the Umlaut rocks. Coz after all Duesseldorf makes no sense.....

[AericWinter]

Not to mention the fact that the Umlaut is banned from German crossword puzzles. How unfair is that?

I am totally with you, Miss V. Auf die Barrikaden und erhebet Euch für die Rechte der Umlaute!

Signed:

Äric Winter

[itekisan]

Äric? ... ? *prust*

Also das sieht mit Ligatur nicht nur schicker aus, sondern verleitet auch weniger zu Verhohnepiepelungen wie Äh-Rick... ;)

That in mind: who fights for the rights of German ligatures? They've totally gone from our language except the ß. Pity.

[AericWinter]

Tja, gebe zu, dass ich die Æ-Ligatur auch vorwiegend der Schickheit halber in meinen Namen aufgenommen habe.

Und Äh-Rick ist wahrlich bereits zu nah an J-Lo oder K-Fed dran. *schauder*

[Andy10815]

I'm in! Where can I sign up?

[rewboss]

Why should a, o and u be the only letters you can umlaut? Why not umlaut the whole alphabet? That way, we get an entire back-up alphabet for when the normal alphabet fails. We could double the number of letters at one stroke: imagine the words we could write!

[ichbinkeinberliner]

I am totally with you!!! Ich heart umlaut! ä ö ü Ich also heart ß (s-set).

[tavin15]

öäüüäöüäüöüäüöüäöü! go for umlaute!