Just fyi: in German, you can write 'ue' for �, 'ae' for �, 'oe' for
� and 'ss' for �. These are the official alternative writings
if umlauts are not available.

Unfortunately I don't get the practice to make it stick in my overclocked chimp brain. But I believe thats correct... which in some examples I was given by a Deutsche Mann I used to work with, you could have sss in some words, which initially started with the SS and had an S added on :) I don't recall now what words they were...

Spec


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Hello acn!

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PS: excuse the missing umlauts, ich habe keine..

No problem :)
Just fyi: in German, you can write 'ue' for �, 'ae' for �,
'oe' for � and 'ss' for �. These are the official
alternative writings if umlauts are not available.

Almost makes more sense to use u: for �, a: for �, and o: for �


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Ogg wrote (2021-09-01):

PS: excuse the missing umlauts, ich habe keine..

No problem :)
Just fyi: in German, you can write 'ue' for ü, 'ae' for ä,
'oe' for ö and 'ss' for ß. These are the official
alternative writings if umlauts are not available.

Almost makes more sense to use u: for ü, a: for ä, and o: for ö

ae oe and ue was originally used and then it transformed to ä ö ü. Distinguishing between u and ü/ue is also important in some cases. Mütter/Muetter is the plural of Mutter (mother). You can try Muttern as plural but this is a different Mutter (nut). Don't screw with the Umläuts.

(Of course, if you want to sound like an Ami, the proper form is a o u ;P).

I guess this only applies if you write in German. I think it's common to omit the diacritics in foreign language words (it's impossible to know all the special rules for every language). So it's Schrodinger's Cat in an English text, but Schroedingers Katze in German.

Alternatively there is aͤ oͤ uͤ in Unicode.

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Am 01.09.21 schrieb Ogg@21:4/106.21 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo Ogg,

Just fyi: in German, you can write 'ue' for �, 'ae' for �,
'oe' for � and 'ss' for �. These are the official
alternative writings if umlauts are not available.

Almost makes more sense to use u: for �, a: for �, and o: for �

Maybe, but the ue/ae/oe writing is more historically accurate, as far as I know.

Regards,
Anna

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Just fyi: in German, you can write 'ue' for �, 'ae' for �, 'oe' for
� and 'ss' for �. These are the official alternative writings
if umlauts are not available.

Unfortunately I don't get the practice to make it stick in my overclocked chimp brain. But I believe thats correct... which in some examples I was given by a Deutsche Mann I used to work with, you could have sss in some words, which initially started with the SS and had an S added on :) I don't recall now what words they were...

Spec


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Am 02.09.21 schrieb Spectre@21:3/101 in FSX_GEN:

Hallo Spectre,

Unfortunately I don't get the practice to make it stick in my overclocked chimp brain. But I believe thats correct... which in some examples I was given by a Deutsche Mann I used to work with, you could have sss in
some words, which initially started with the SS and had an S added on :)
I don't recall now what words they were...

Well, yes. Since the reform of the orthography in Germany in the late 90s,
it is 'allowed' to write words with three consonants in a row.
For example: Geschirrr�ckgabe (dishes return, eg. in a restaurant)
And examples like yours, where the reformed writing is with "ss" instead
of "�", also something with 'sss' is possible.

As I'm old-school and dislike this reform, I don't follow it and write according to the old rules (which I've learned at school) :)
And there, writing three consonants in a row is only 'allowed' if writing only two of them instead would mislead the reader (because the meaning
would change). I don't know an example, however :)

Regards,
Anna

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