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Even stranger (Score:1)

by daxim (8218)

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- next stop... (Score:0)
  
  by slanning (5049)
  
  Fuckingborough. Terminus!
Perfectly valid (Score:1)

by merijnb (296)

In german when you are not able to produce an umlaut you always put an e after the vowel that is supposed to have one. Like in a telegram or on a typewriter for instance.
On typewriters that I used back in the day there actually was a special key to stop the carriage from moving while typing, so you could easily put umlauts and diacritics in. Don't know if english/us typewriters would have those.
Anyway, for German people (and Austrians) I'd say it is very automatic to read e after vowel as an umlaut. Wit
better than the alternatives (Score:1)

by aurum (8572)

I'd much rather see Koeln than KÂ¶ln, or K%F6ln, or Koln (which is just wrong.) As merijnb says, it's ASCIIfied, not Anglicized. Coblence and Mayence are just weird though. :)