[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] German Umlaut Vowels

[Jack Milner]

Hello listers,

Computers are umlaut capable if your keyboard is set up for the German 
language.  The only trick is knowing what keys represent these 
characters on a US keyboard layout after you switch from US to German.

[     [right square bracket key on US keyboard] = [ ü  on German 
keyboard]  Upper case =  Ü
;     [semicolon key on US keyboard ]   = [ö on German keyboard]  Upper 
case colon = Ö
'     [apostropohe/single quotation on US keyboard]   =  [ä on German 
keyboard] Upper case double quotation = Ä

Go to <Help> on your computer and type in the word keyboard to find out 
how this is done on your operating system.

Yours truly,

Jack Milner

Otto wrote:

>A brief note:
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>The German alphabet includes three umlaut vowels, A, O, and U.  
>(vowels with two dots above them)  The dots are not diacritical  
>marks. Umlaut vowels are alphabetical characters.  Umlauts are to be  
>pronounced at the front of the mouth like the pronunciation of 'ich'  
>and not at the throaty back of the mouth like pronunciation of 'ach'.  
>Umlaut/half-loud.  Author Mark Twain joked that learning German is  
>getting the ichlauts and achlauts correct, say what you are going to  
>say, then add a verb to the end.
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>Mechanical typewriters came on to the world scene. 26 letters. . .  
>where are my umlaut vowels?
>The ListServ is not umlaut capable. What do I do now?
>I indicate an umlaut A by adding an E after it, resulting in "ae', I  
>do the same with umlaut O="oe" and umlaut U="ue"
>(you will note the added 'e' forces the vowel sounding to the front  
>of the mouth)
>
>Today, more and more font bases include diacritical marks AND German  
>umlaut vowels.
>
>
>. . .  Otto
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