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When you can't type the umlauts the correct way is using an additional e after the vowel, like this: Vorfuehreffekt. One more example: "schoen" instead of "schö
by _nalply 7y ago
When you can't type the umlauts the correct way is using an additional e after the vowel, like this: Vorfuehreffekt. One more example: "schoen" instead of "schön" and not "schon".
Vorfuhreffekt is different and just sounds wrong. The German ear tries to understand this like this: "the effect of having gone ahead", but in German you don't conjugate substantives, so using the past of "fahren" ("fuhr") doesn't work here. This is irritating, at least for me.
For "schön" and "schon" however it does really matter because these words are in English "beautiful" and "already".
- schoen 7y agoThe former is my family name, and unfortunately following our immigration to the U.S. many people here interpret it as two separate syllables!