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ccppurcell 6 hours ago

Rock dots? You mean diacritics? Yeah someone invented them: the ancient Greeks, idiöt.

RHSeeger 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not the character, its the way / context in which it's used

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut

ccppurcell 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I know what he was referring to. But the use case is obviously languages other than English, not the Motörhead fan club newsletter.

topaz0 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Some combination of people misunderstood some other people's joke, not totally clear which and which.

chr 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, that dude oughta read books and learn about computers, too.

gerikson 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.