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> I had to spend some time with google to find the right spelling. Well... here goes the nitpicking. The German word is "Hügelkultur". If you for some reason
by chmod775 6y ago
> I had to spend some time with google to find the right spelling.
Well... here goes the nitpicking.
The German word is "Hügelkultur". If you for some reason can't use an Umlaut, the proper spelling would be "Huegelkultur".
- ben0x539 6y agoThanks, this irks me disproportionally. People gotta respect our stupid proprietary vowels!!
- washicalendar 6y agoI don’t blame anyone for not knowing that ü = ue if they don’t speak German, but if you are/were one of those people who didn’t know this and just ignored the umlauts altogether (Hügelkultur -> Hugelkultur): the ü and u, ä and a, ö and o... are all different letters. They are not simply modifications to the letters a, o, and u. They are different letters entirely, which can also be represented as ae, oe, and ue. But they are NOT the letters ae, oe, ue, if that makes sense.
- slim 6y agoto be clear they sound different
- xg15 6y agoIf anyone wants to know, it also literally means "hill culture". ("Culture" in the biological sense I believe, like the cultures from your organic yoghurt)