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| Oct 13, 2020 at 5:56 | comment | added | M. Justin | @EdwinAshworth — I've attempted to address your foreign language point by changing the umlaut examples to English words. Granted, they're loanwords from German, but they do show up in English dictionaries with the umlaut spelling. | |
| Oct 13, 2020 at 5:56 | comment | added | M. Justin | @EdwinAshworth — I'll give your point about needing research in the question some further thought in the morning to see how I can best address it in the question. I'm running into the quandary discussed here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/256644/…. | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 19:26 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Discussions about foreign languages belong not on ELU but often on Linguistics.SE. Just like maths-specific terminology belongs on Mathematics, questions about interpretation of passages in books belong on Literature, questions about politeness conventions belong on Interpersonal Skills (though of course they all use language). And answering one's own question presupposes that reasonable decent research has been done and accompanies the question. | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:55 | comment | added | M. Justin | @nohat One of the paragraphs in that article answers this question nicely, as well. "The difference is that an umlaut is a German thing that alters the pronunciation of a vowel, and often changes the meaning of a word. [...] A diaeresis goes over the second vowel and indicates that it forms a separate syllable." | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:42 | comment | added | nohat | I don't think any discussion of the dieresis in English would be complete without reference to The New Yorker, which is a unique force keeping its use alive in English. "She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died. This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since." newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:30 | comment | added | M. Justin | @JohnLawler Are you referring to the fact that I asked & answered my own question? Since that's an encouraged Stack Exchange activity: meta.stackexchange.com/a/17467/308327. In short, I didn't see anything directly addressing this question on this site, it's something I've done some research into, something I would like to see here, and I felt that adding it as a Q&A-style self-answer was a positive contribution to the site. | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:27 | comment | added | John Lawler | That's basically correct. What's the problem? | |
| Oct 12, 2020 at 18:18 | history | edited | Rayan Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 12, 2020 at 17:58 | history | answered | M. Justin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |