The death of the umlaut?

Jööööö, Miss V muses on the plight of the umlaut. Including proposing a campaign to make umlauted letters part of the alphabet proper! The group can be called LOLCAKAOPULIA (League of the Linguistically Concerned, Also Known As the Organisation for the Promotion of the Advancement of the Umlauted Letters In the Alphabet). I think it's kind of catchy, don't you?

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• learning
• umlaut
• german
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• deutsch
• English
• englisch

[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!

[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

[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

[teenmod12]

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

[ThBrian]

@MaiaRikae Where should i download it?

[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

[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 :)

[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