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On Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009, Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:03 -0800 |
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> felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > In Germany is a district "Busingen", with an umlauted 'u'. Is it |
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> > reasonable to consider it the same word whether with or without the |
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> > unlauted u? |
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> No. For many words it would be ok, but not for all. For example, |
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> "drucken" means "to print", "drücken" (with an umlaut) means "to |
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> press". In German you can exchange an umlaut with the combination "base |
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> letter + e", i.e. ü --> ue, ö --> oe, and ß --> ss. There are words |
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> with the combination "oe" that is in that particular case does not mean |
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> "ö". So it's not straight forward, especially with names. Those may |
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> have a rather odd spelling for historical reasons. |
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and it is hilarious to see american media fuck that up almost every time ... |
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;) |
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