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acidzebra · 08-28-2009, 09:03 AM

We call it "trema" too. We are losing the habit of using it. I blame US keyboards

Technically an umlaut shifts the sound, the trema does not (at least in dutch), but indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter which precedes it. So they are not the same thing.

""sneeksnits", "oer dier ! dis treins warboel en arend""

What?

08-28-2009, 09:03 AM	#20
acidzebra Liseuse Lover Posts: 869 Karma: 1035404 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Netherlands Device: PRS-505	We call it "trema" too. We are losing the habit of using it. I blame US keyboards Technically an umlaut shifts the sound, the trema does not (at least in dutch), but indicates that a vowel should be pronounced apart from the letter which precedes it. So they are not the same thing. ""sneeksnits", "oer dier ! dis treins warboel en arend"" What? Last edited by acidzebra; 08-28-2009 at 09:07 AM.