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Hey! |
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> So do people type in Busingen different ways depending on how they |
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> feel, do some people always leave off the umlaut, do some always use |
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> it? |
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You cannot simply leave the umlaut out since it is considered as a separate |
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letter for itself. You cannot choose whether to write an "ö" or an "o". Like |
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Renat said, there are words that completely change their meaning when |
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exchanging the characters. |
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I think this is especially true if it comes to names. While people get used to |
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spellings like "Goettingen" for Göttingen, it looks odd and wrong to Germans. |
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Like someone who doesn't have the character on the keyboard ;) |
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Also keep in mind that there are cities that are spelled with "oe" or "ae" by |
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design. (Soest, Oelde, Aerzen, Oestinghausen etc.) Those cannot be spelled |
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with an "ö" instead. It would simply be wrong. |
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Patrick |
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