Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:33, Mike McCarty wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Nope, it's Jägermeister. It's one of my favorite drinks.

Pardon, but in this context the appropriate form is to expand
the umlaut. It is inappropriate to put characters like that
into a text-only message.

There isn't anything non-ISO about "ä", including it in a message doesn't make
it "not text only". The "ae" is a poorman form of "æ".

In any case, the articulation of the english /j/ and the german
/j/ is not the same.

It has more of a /y/ sound in German, no?

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