There's no umlaut in english, so it doesn't signify any sound in english words, it's merely a stylistic choice, kind of like writing a z at the end of a word instead of an s.
That's actually exactly how it works and how language evolves...foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There's already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.
I had to read your comments to get it, and I knew about Tesla using glue on that, and about got2b, just not that it used to have an umlaut. I think it's funny now, though xD So, maybe the downvotes are from people who understandably didn't get it. Maybe it was a bit too convoluted. Nice effort, though! I believe in you, you got a viral meme inside you somewhere 💪
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Lemmist@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 1y
tacofox@lemm.ee · 27 pts · 1y
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
And this, I presume
tacofox@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
Thank you. Memmy is not working for me right now haha.
Lemmist@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
tacofox@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
It’s what bugs bunny calls lady boys, obv.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Eeeeeh, what's up do- oh, oh my
tacofox@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y
Why the umlaut? I don't get that part, theres just about nothing German or European about anything in this image
tacofox@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
It’s the original logo
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
I see...
That american urge to use umlauts, without using the sound it signifies, always baffled me.
Beacon@fedia.io · 4 pts · 1y
There's no umlaut in english, so it doesn't signify any sound in english words, it's merely a stylistic choice, kind of like writing a z at the end of a word instead of an s.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
I disagree though, when you adopt from other languages the sounds follow. Of course designers don't feel like that, but they would be wrong.
Beacon@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
I'm pretty sure that's not actually how language works.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
That's actually exactly how it works and how language evolves...foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There's already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.
Beacon@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y
But that's not what we're talking about. It's extremely extremely rare for a language to adopt a new written character.
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
there's the alternate spelling of naïve and it's derived words, but they are rarely used nowadays
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I know the brand, but that is some deep hair gel lore
tacofox@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
I could have gotten -100 votes on this and it would’ve been worth it for “deep hair gel lore” lmao
sir_pronoun@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
I had to read your comments to get it, and I knew about Tesla using glue on that, and about got2b, just not that it used to have an umlaut. I think it's funny now, though xD So, maybe the downvotes are from people who understandably didn't get it. Maybe it was a bit too convoluted. Nice effort, though! I believe in you, you got a viral meme inside you somewhere 💪
tacofox@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I appreciate the kind words 😭
ummthatguy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The spray version of that product would keep my Mohawk up for many days (pretty much until I washed it out).