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   The_JAM said, 7 months ago

   ä ë ï ö ü :D :D :D
   We call it “diaeresis”.

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   IncredibleWerekitty said, 7 months ago

   chuckles

   I guess Omelets are French, eh?

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   wndrwrthg said, 7 months ago

   Can I get a couple of tildes to go?

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   pschearer said, 7 months ago

   Ga-ROAN!

   English is one of the very few languages that don’t clutter up the Latin alphabet with diacritical marks. At least that’s true for native vocabulary.

   Unfortunately, part of the richness of English comes from our huge number of borrowings, and some of them come encrusted with barnacles from their orginal languages. Thus you will often see words like NAIVE, FIANCEE, SEANCE, or CAFE spelled with accents, diereses, and the like.

   IMO this is an affectation and should be avoided. (When they make me the King of England, I’ll fix that.)

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   NebulousRikulau said, 7 months ago

   @The_JAM: That can be avoided with proper cooking.

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   marianmacleod said, 7 months ago

   I am wondering if there is a way to access all of the Loose Parts that have to do with music.

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   chromosome said, 7 months ago

   marianmacleod, that would be nice. I think it would take a search capacity that would look inside one comic and then look for tags. Unfortunately, it would only find ones readers had tagged.

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   Gweedo Murray said, 7 months ago

   Thanks pschearer. If we have to go metric the rest of world will have to go English, sans barnacles.

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   DigitalFrog said, 7 months ago

   Nebulous is right, The_Jam, if you don’t cook your umlaut properly, you could get a grave case of diaeresis….

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    nighthawks said, 7 months ago

    ist das not der burnt up eggs?
    ya das ist der burnt up eggs!
    burnt up eggs?
    burnt up eggs!

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    Yukoneric said, 7 months ago

    Only 4 countries in the world do not use metric. I love the Alt+numbers for foreign alphabets.

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    Sandor_at_the_Zoo said, 7 months ago

    Gross! (Or Groß.)