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This disambig page replaces the article previously at this site, which after due consultation has now been moved to Germanic Umlaut. -- Doric Loon 21:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
This page is written in very esoteric terms. Any chance someone could either make it easier to understand for non-linguists or link the various terms to their own articles? The former is preferable. 199.126.31.193 18:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
How do you type an umlaut? I've been trying to find out for a week now. Quadzilla99 13:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't one of you orthographists mention the use of the letter "E" when spelling out an Umlaut? I don't have the background to know how to present it precisely, but it seems odd that the common replacement of Umlaut with a following "E" (e.g., schoen, Haendel) is not mentioned in the article. Especially since this is the way to represent an Umlaut on a keyboard lacking this symbol. Roricka 03:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't we stick to the classical denomination Umlaut instead of of Mutation, which means another thing in other languages, for instance the Celtic languages? In Germanistic philology, Umlaut is the the scholarly word. So, authors of the mutation-articles, please, correct yourselves. Mutation is one thing, Umlaut another. Cheers Io 22:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Why is it ridiculous? It is a disambiguation page, not intended to be a discussion or explanation of the phenomena, but merely pointing to the various articles on phenomena which some people call umlaut. This is necessary because we after lengthy discussions about which definition of Umlaut we should adopt, it was agreed that variant uses are legitimate even in technical terminology. The point of this page is purely to point to those different uses, giving a potted definition of each so that the reader will find what they actually want. Unfortunately, people who know nothing about the subject feel it necessary to meddle with disambiguation pages, so I'm not convinced it is all presented as neatly as I would like. But I see no logical fallacies. But if you do, please fix them. -- Doric Loon 14:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but the page is not equating those things - it is listing variant uses. No-one uses the word to mean two of these things AT ONCE - that would indeed lead to ridiculous complications. But unfortunately, the fact is that very different uses of this word are found in linguistics texts. I personally wanted to keep the word Umlaut for Germanic Umlaut, but other colleagues produced so many citations that I had to concede that other people mean different things by it. So no, Germanic Umlaut is not equal to I-Umlaut, but the word Umlaut can mean either. -- Doric Loon 10:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
The magazine, *The New Yorker*, frequently spells a word like "cooperation" with an umlaut, like "coöperation" or "cöoperation", I forget which. So, what would a "ö" be called in English, if in fact *The New Yorker* is correct to use it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.9.226.82 ( talk) 20:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Half of the time people are looking for "umlaut", they're looking for the diacritic. Therefore, I propose this page be moved to Umlaut (disambiguation), and Umlaut be redirected to Umlaut (diacritic). I'd do it myself, but it's too complicated for me, and I'd probably start taking serious flak for being too bold. And trust me, I've already taken enough flak to last me the year. 21 655 ωhατ δo γoυ ωαητ? 17:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I still disagree. This disambig page is so clear and easy to use, anyone looking for the diacritic finds the words "two dots above a letter" right in the first line and has only to click to get that article. Conversely, if someone is looking for the linguistic phenomenon and gets directed straight to the article on the diacritic, that is far more confusing. I don't accept the argument about the modifiers - we called it "Germanic Umlaut" in answer to complaints that the word is sometimes used for non-Germanic parallels, but the usual term for this linguistic phenomenon is simply "Umlaut". And since that is the basic concept from which the two dots are then derived, it would actually make most sense to put IT here. But since we won't get a concensus on which of the two articles is more fundamental, the current policy of leading with the disambig makes sense. -- Doric Loon ( talk) 18:24, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
"a pair of dots ( ¨ ) above a vowel, used, among other languages, in German to mark umlaut " Of course, the term "Umlaut" is not Turkic language, but it can't be denied, that those dots above a vowel are also used in other languages. "With among other languages" is not referred to the term "Umlaut" 49.145.70.58 ( talk) 10:58, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
The redirect Ümlaut has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 February 16 § Ümlaut until a consensus is reached. An anonymous username, not my real name 03:44, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
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This disambig page replaces the article previously at this site, which after due consultation has now been moved to Germanic Umlaut. -- Doric Loon 21:02, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
This page is written in very esoteric terms. Any chance someone could either make it easier to understand for non-linguists or link the various terms to their own articles? The former is preferable. 199.126.31.193 18:27, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
How do you type an umlaut? I've been trying to find out for a week now. Quadzilla99 13:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't one of you orthographists mention the use of the letter "E" when spelling out an Umlaut? I don't have the background to know how to present it precisely, but it seems odd that the common replacement of Umlaut with a following "E" (e.g., schoen, Haendel) is not mentioned in the article. Especially since this is the way to represent an Umlaut on a keyboard lacking this symbol. Roricka 03:10, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Shouldn't we stick to the classical denomination Umlaut instead of of Mutation, which means another thing in other languages, for instance the Celtic languages? In Germanistic philology, Umlaut is the the scholarly word. So, authors of the mutation-articles, please, correct yourselves. Mutation is one thing, Umlaut another. Cheers Io 22:04, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
Why is it ridiculous? It is a disambiguation page, not intended to be a discussion or explanation of the phenomena, but merely pointing to the various articles on phenomena which some people call umlaut. This is necessary because we after lengthy discussions about which definition of Umlaut we should adopt, it was agreed that variant uses are legitimate even in technical terminology. The point of this page is purely to point to those different uses, giving a potted definition of each so that the reader will find what they actually want. Unfortunately, people who know nothing about the subject feel it necessary to meddle with disambiguation pages, so I'm not convinced it is all presented as neatly as I would like. But I see no logical fallacies. But if you do, please fix them. -- Doric Loon 14:08, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Yes, but the page is not equating those things - it is listing variant uses. No-one uses the word to mean two of these things AT ONCE - that would indeed lead to ridiculous complications. But unfortunately, the fact is that very different uses of this word are found in linguistics texts. I personally wanted to keep the word Umlaut for Germanic Umlaut, but other colleagues produced so many citations that I had to concede that other people mean different things by it. So no, Germanic Umlaut is not equal to I-Umlaut, but the word Umlaut can mean either. -- Doric Loon 10:03, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
The magazine, *The New Yorker*, frequently spells a word like "cooperation" with an umlaut, like "coöperation" or "cöoperation", I forget which. So, what would a "ö" be called in English, if in fact *The New Yorker* is correct to use it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.9.226.82 ( talk) 20:32, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
Half of the time people are looking for "umlaut", they're looking for the diacritic. Therefore, I propose this page be moved to Umlaut (disambiguation), and Umlaut be redirected to Umlaut (diacritic). I'd do it myself, but it's too complicated for me, and I'd probably start taking serious flak for being too bold. And trust me, I've already taken enough flak to last me the year. 21 655 ωhατ δo γoυ ωαητ? 17:44, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
I still disagree. This disambig page is so clear and easy to use, anyone looking for the diacritic finds the words "two dots above a letter" right in the first line and has only to click to get that article. Conversely, if someone is looking for the linguistic phenomenon and gets directed straight to the article on the diacritic, that is far more confusing. I don't accept the argument about the modifiers - we called it "Germanic Umlaut" in answer to complaints that the word is sometimes used for non-Germanic parallels, but the usual term for this linguistic phenomenon is simply "Umlaut". And since that is the basic concept from which the two dots are then derived, it would actually make most sense to put IT here. But since we won't get a concensus on which of the two articles is more fundamental, the current policy of leading with the disambig makes sense. -- Doric Loon ( talk) 18:24, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
"a pair of dots ( ¨ ) above a vowel, used, among other languages, in German to mark umlaut " Of course, the term "Umlaut" is not Turkic language, but it can't be denied, that those dots above a vowel are also used in other languages. "With among other languages" is not referred to the term "Umlaut" 49.145.70.58 ( talk) 10:58, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
The redirect Ümlaut has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 February 16 § Ümlaut until a consensus is reached. An anonymous username, not my real name 03:44, 16 February 2023 (UTC)