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Behold, the superiority of the German language, having Emojis build in before they were invented: Ü
by hedberg10 5y ago
Behold, the superiority of the German language, having Emojis build in before they were invented:
Ü
- kuratkull 5y agoWe have that in Estonia too, but we also have the extreme-surprise emoji Ö
- Lex-2008 5y agoSome say that Cyrillic letter Ы is a single character for "lol".
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThat letter is interesting to me for being two separate pieces. Any idea how that happened?
- Lex-2008 5y agoHonestly, I don't know. But Wikipedia says it was a ligature of two letters ("Ь" and "I"), which later changed their values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yery#Origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yery#Origin
- MrDresden 5y agoIcelandic has the 'Ö' and also the 'Þ' (goes very well with ':'). Not sure what the 'Æ' could stand in for though
- __s 5y agoÆ looks like the blank face of shame. Somehow I'm picturing E being the mouth's shape in that expression
- thaumasiotes 5y agoThat one's also part of German. They have umlauts for A, O, and U. Though as far as I can tell, the German Ä is just a variant of "E". The other two are their own vowels, and they used to be rendered in English as "oe" and "ue". It's not clear to me why we decided that it was better to write "Gödel" as "Godel" than as "Goedel".
- hedberg10 5y agoHe probably wanted to get Email, when Umlauts weren't in the spec yet. I don't know though, I totally made that up.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoIt's not difficult for English speakers to write "e".
- BrandoElFollito 5y agoWhy used to be? I still see on a daily basis and I think I never saw ö rendered as o (when the writer knew what they were doing)
- ant6n 5y agoIn German chats, before emoticons, ppl used *g* (grins=smile)
- hedberg10 5y agoWeird how they overlooked the Ü