Simviation Forum - ***Guide to the Characters***

Reply #15 - May 19^th, 2005 at 10:29pm

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If the two dots is called a Diaeresis, then what is an umlat (oom-lot)... I know I must have spelled that wrong.

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Reply #16 - May 20^th, 2005 at 5:08am

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Danish letters

æ ø å Æ Ø Å

Or old english or norwegian. I swear Beowulf is in Daneglish Grin

(written about 900 years ago).

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Reply #17 - May 20^th, 2005 at 5:13am

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then, please tell me which language they are... Wink

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Reply #18 - May 20^th, 2005 at 6:08am

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If the two dots is called a Diaeresis, then what is an umlat (oom-lot)... I know I must have spelled that wrong.

Ä,ö,ü are Umlaute.

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Reply #19 - May 20^th, 2005 at 2:47pm

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...Diaeresis is a version of chronic diarrhoea...

...which is a load of crap, really... Wink

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LOL...!

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P.S. ....what about "oe" and "ae" joined together...?

eg: ae as in Aesops Fables...!

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Reply #20 - May 21^st, 2005 at 2:49pm

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yup. in german, for example, these can be used instead of the umlaute. ae = ä, ue = ü, oe = ö.

so, people. as you can see, german can very easily be written with an english keyboard. there's no need for the umlaute. i always wondered why so many people write ö,ü,ä as o,u,a (which is just wrong) instead of ae, ue, oe Wink

EDIT: actually the most common german word in published in english writings is probably "Führer" lol. remember, kids: "Fuhrer" is a word that does not exist in the German language. so from now on it's "Fuehrer" Grin

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Reply #21 - May 21^st, 2005 at 3:01pm

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yup. in german, for example, these can be used instead of the umlaute. ae = ä, ue = ü, oe = ö.

so, people. as you can see, German can very easily be written with an English keyboard. there's no need for the umlaute. I always wondered why so many people write ö,ü,ä as o,u,a (which is just wrong) instead of ae, ue, oe Wink

So how do you generate the characters "ae", "ue", and "oe", which overlap each other as in "Ae"sop's Fables.... Wink

...?
Note: that they can be a mix of upper and lower case letters...

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Reply #22 - May 28^th, 2005 at 10:53am

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Thanks alex

Cheers Theis

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Reply #23 - Jun 4^th, 2005 at 2:29pm

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Hey...this is usefull...thanks

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Reply #24 - Jun 6^th, 2005 at 12:30am

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your welcome, anytime!

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Reply #25 - Jun 7^th, 2005 at 3:15am

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Per Fozzer:
So how do you generate the characters "ae", "ue", and "oe", which overlap each other as in "Ae"sop's Fables....

Roll Eyes

Good Question. I've done it with a graphics program but that means generating it as a px, taking a lot of extra time. The name Alfred used to be 'Ae'lf(=Elf but now Alf in the name) 'raed'(=council); now it's gone the way of Aesop's fables.
Originally, one tried pronouncing both letters at the same time but the enunciation and the vocabulary went through major changes after 1066A.D. Did the pronunciation change cause the spelling change or, as seems more likely, the spelling change alter the pronunciation ???

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Reply #26 - Jun 7^th, 2005 at 7:16pm