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I don't think the average literate English reader really knows how to parse an umlaut - I sure don't. And while the spelling system isn't necessarily consisten
by kaesar14 4y ago
I don't think the average literate English reader really knows how to parse an umlaut - I sure don't.
And while the spelling system isn't necessarily consistent I don't see why we should change words that people do know how to pronounce to ones that we don't?
- HL33tibCe7 4y agoWe don’t have an equivalent vowel sound to “ü” in English at all. It’s something German learners struggle with.
- avgcorrection 4y agoDo you mean to say that a strange character in one word keeps you from tokenizing the sentence? And hence you cannot make sense of the whole sentence because of that one character (syntax parsing → semantics)? Or do you simply mean that you don’t understand what that one single character is supposed to represent (or just sound like)?
- kaesar14 4y agoThe sound like bit.