The hill I will die on: Faux Cyrillic is a load of old crдp | Viv Groskop To the designers of film posters, I suppose it looks cleverly exotic – but there are 250 million readers of Cyrillic globally, and its misuse grinds our gears, says comedian and author Viv Groskop

#Faux #Cyrillic is a load of old crдp, ditto silly fake #German #umlauts 🙄
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This Week On The Charts 10/3/1981: Buck Dharma and Blue Öyster Cult break into the top 40 (barely) with “Burnin’ For You”. #BOC #BlueÖysterCult #RockHonorRoll #Umlauts

German umlauts: two dots that raise many questions How are the umlauts ä, ö and ü pronounced, and how are they used? Everything about the meaning of the special dots over some German letters - including examples.

😳😱 German umlauts ? What's that?

🇩🇪 #Umlauts are a trademark of the #GermanLanguage - the two dots above the letters a, o or u look inconspicuous, but in German they change entire words and their meaning!

Find out how!👇

A push notification on android: A light gray on black message bubble containing the text "Sie haben neue Daten empfangen. Ä~ffnen Sie ihre App um neue Daten ab..."

A German app on a German (Display lang) android. Built by a German IT company, for connecting (mostly) German speaking doctors to (mostly) German speaking clients.

Still, the notification obviously fails to render German umlauts. 🤦

#fail #Android #umlauts

I’ve always wondered how languages like #Swedish would handle the #umlauts when it came to things like #alphabet #cookies. #ikea

Enthusiastic about #phonology and the reconstruction of #EastNorse and #Finnic.
My PhD from Helsinki University was on the Norse #umlauts.
I write in #Swedish, #Finnish and occasionally in East-Nylandic, the easternmost #dialect of Swedish, apart from the near-extinct Swedish dialect in Ukraine.