Comment by ccppurcell

Comment by ccppurcell 16 hours ago

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Rock dots? You mean diacritics? Yeah someone invented them: the ancient Greeks, idiöt.

RHSeeger 16 hours ago

It's not the character, its the way / context in which it's used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

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ccppurcell 15 hours ago

I know what he was referring to. But the use case is obviously languages other than English, not the Motörhead fan club newsletter.

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topaz0 14 hours ago

Some combination of people misunderstood some other people's joke, not totally clear which and which.

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chr 16 hours ago

Yeah, that dude oughta read books and learn about computers, too.

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gerikson 14 hours ago

And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.

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