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Umlaut

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:52 pm
by Michael Wallace
Check out the letters on wikipedia's umlaut page - I think my favourite is the angry U. Ǚ

Edit: I can't make my U angry :(

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:07 pm
by Matt Morrison
I like this dude flexing his muscles:

and this fat one: Ȫ

and this frog:

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:10 pm
by Sue Sanders
Vaguely connected....

Can't do it justice on here due to not having a euro symbol so on a phone try euro, colon, open curly bracket, close square bracket and say who you see.

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:06 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Sue Sanders wrote:Vaguely connected....

Can't do it justice on here due to not having a euro symbol so on a phone try euro, colon, open curly bracket, close square bracket and say who you see.
With curly bracket do you mean ( or { ?

Anyway my phone automatically changes : ( into a sad face so I had to separate them and it looked like a mess. Is it supposed to be you?

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:30 am
by Matt Morrison
€:{]

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:55 am
by Ian Volante
It looks like the professor character on my kiddie calculator from many years ago.

EDIT: Now it looks like Mr Creosote.

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:19 am
by Sue Sanders
Kirk Bevins wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote:Vaguely connected....

Can't do it justice on here due to not having a euro symbol so on a phone try euro, colon, open curly bracket, close square bracket and say who you see.
With curly bracket do you mean ( or { ?

Anyway my phone automatically changes : ( into a sad face so I had to separate them and it looked like a mess. Is it supposed to be you?
No. I haven't got a moustache. But thanks for trying!

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:24 am
by Sue Sanders
Ian Volante wrote:It looks like the professor character on my kiddie calculator from many years ago.

EDIT: Now it looks like Mr Creosote.
Good one, Ian. On my phone it's a bit more thin faced so looks like Basil Fawlty...so from the same stable as Mr Creosote.

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 8:38 am
by Derek Hazell
Sue Sanders wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Anyway my phone automatically changes : ( into a sad face so I had to separate them and it looked like a mess. Is it supposed to be you?
No. I haven't got a moustache. But thanks for trying!
Not on your face anyway.

Re: Umlaut

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 9:49 am
by Sue Sanders
Derek Hazell wrote:
Sue Sanders wrote:
Kirk Bevins wrote:Anyway my phone automatically changes : ( into a sad face so I had to separate them and it looked like a mess. Is it supposed to be you?
No. I haven't got a moustache. But thanks for trying!
Not on your face anyway.

Ah Derek - you think you know me so well.