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          16 hours ago

          There’s no umlaut in english, so it doesn’t signify any sound in english words, it’s merely a stylistic choice, kind of like writing a z at the end of a word instead of an s.

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            15 hours ago

            I disagree though, when you adopt from other languages the sounds follow. Of course designers don’t feel like that, but they would be wrong.

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                4 hours ago

                That’s actually exactly how it works and how language evolves…foreign words are absorbed into a language, adding the new pronunciations to itself. There’s already a ton of English words that are either directly from foreign languages or heavily inspired by them, including their pronunciation and spelling.