Hi :) I thought the umlaut was a specific type of such a mark and that there were quite a few different markings, and in different languages, that could change the way a letter sounds? Regards from Tom :)
--- On Tue, 13/3/12, Séamas Ó Brógáin <[email protected]> wrote: From: Séamas Ó Brógáin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation. To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 13 March, 2012, 9:47 Brian wrote: > For what it's worth, the German for "diaeresis" appears to be "Trema". > The umlaut looks the same, but it's a different mark: it is an accent, > whereas the diaeresis is (as you describe) also a diacritic but not an > accent. Not quite. “Umlaut” is not a character or a mark but the linguistic phenomenon whereby a vowel sound changes under the influence of another vowel (e.g. Haus > Häuser). In German this is marked by a diaeresis (the two dots), called “trema” in German. Calling the symbol “an umlaut” is a solecism. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
