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[nomemory]

Keyboards tend to differ, on mine they are far apart. You have a German keyboard I am pretty sure Yuriko doesn't have that.

I know, but it was just funny. I looked at my keyboard and was like "Uhh - not really XD".

I remember when I was I Germany, everything I wrote was sorta messed up. And I wrote all Ã…s as Ãœs which made it hard to read.

[Yurikochan]

Thankfully A and Y are far apart in both the alphabet and the keyboard.

*looks on keyboard*

Spoiler: Uhm, yeah...

  I love how there is two As on it. I'm too lazy to find a picture of an American keyboard though.

[Dus]

Russian keyboards seem to switch at random and when I'm using one I often type a wall of text in the wrong alphabet. >_<
(hehe...two As )

[Callid]

Thankfully A and Y are far apart in both the alphabet and the keyboard.

*looks on keyboard*

Spoiler: Uhm, yeah...

 :o I love how there is two As on it. I'm too lazy to find a picture of an American keyboard though.

An Ä has two dots! It's not an A! They are as far from each other as the U in "but" and the E in "bet"! And they can make a huge difference in one word! For example, "achten" means "to respect" or "to esteem", while "ächten" means "to outlaw". They don't have anything to do with each other (and from the phonetic point of view it shouldn't be Ä, but Ë anyway).

[nomemory]

Thankfully A and Y are far apart in both the alphabet and the keyboard.

*looks on keyboard*

Spoiler: Uhm, yeah...

 :o I love how there is two As on it. I'm too lazy to find a picture of an American keyboard though.

An Ä has two dots! It's not an A! They are as far from each other as the U in "but" and the E in "bet"! And they can make a huge difference in one word! For example, "achten" means "to respect" or "to estdeem", while "ächten" means "to outlaw". They don't have anything to do with each other (and from the phonetic point of view it shouldn't be Ä, but Ë anyway).

We have three of them A, Å and Ä But as Callid said, they don't really sound like A. We also have O and Ö.

[Callid]

Ë

Thankfully A and Y are far apart in both the alphabet and the keyboard.

*looks on keyboard*

Spoiler: Uhm, yeah...

 :o I love how there is two As on it. I'm too lazy to find a picture of an American keyboard though.

An Ä has two dots! It's not an A! They are as far from each other as the U in "but" and the E in "bet"! And they can make a huge difference in one word! For example, "achten" means "to respect" or "to estdeem", while "ächten" means "to outlaw". They don't have anything to do with each other (and from the phonetic point of view it shouldn't be Ä, but Ë anyway).

We have three of them A, Å and Ä But as Callid said, they don't really sound like A. We also have O and Ö.

Ö? Not the pierced O Ø?

[Dus]

(and from the phonetic point of view it shouldn't be Ä, but Ë anyway).

That's utter nonsense.

ÄÖÜ have nothing to do with phonetics but with etymology.  Words with an umlaut are derived from another word with an a, o, or u. It's called an "ablaut" and a feature of several Indo-European languages, but most prominent in German (hence the German name for the phenomenon). English still retains some of this:
sing - sang -sung
break - broke -broken

No, only the Danes and Norwegians have ø and æ. (Not sure about Icelandic though).
I think it's also to do with etomology and the ablaut, but I don't speak a Scandinavian language, so it's just an educated guess.
But German As often correspond to Bavarian Ås and German Äs to Bavarian Às, so it might be the same in Scandinavian.

[nomemory]

Ë

Thankfully A and Y are far apart in both the alphabet and the keyboard.

*looks on keyboard*

Spoiler: Uhm, yeah...

 :o I love how there is two As on it. I'm too lazy to find a picture of an American keyboard though.

An Ä has two dots! It's not an A! They are as far from each other as the U in "but" and the E in "bet"! And they can make a huge difference in one word! For example, "achten" means "to respect" or "to estdeem", while "ächten" means "to outlaw". They don't have anything to do with each other (and from the phonetic point of view it shouldn't be Ä, but Ë anyway).

We have three of them A, Å and Ä But as Callid said, they don't really sound like A. We also have O and Ö.

Ö? Not the pierced O Ø?

That would be Danish and Norwegian. But I do think that Ø looks prettier.

[Callid]

(and from the phonetic point of view it shouldn't be Ä, but Ë anyway).

That's utter nonsense.

ÄÖÜ have nothing to do with phonetics but with etymology.  Words with an umlaut are derived from another word with an a, o, or u. It's called an "ablaut" and a feature of several Indo-European languages, but most prominent in German (hence the German name for the phenomenon). English still retains some of this:
sing - sang -sung
break - broke -broken

That's why I said from the phonetic POV, not from the etymological one. I'm completely aware that that's the reason the Ä is kind of an A (Baum -> Bäume), but that's not about phonetics, but linguistics. Phonetical both E and Ä represent /É›/ if they are short; and even if long, Ä is sometimes spoken /eË

[mangaluva]

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6246435/1/Silence_in_the_Snow

Ficlinking.

[Conia]

- Chain fixed. Conia -

Fixing chains in the GD Board. Use Preview function people!

[Callid]

C:\Freigegebene Dateien

Yeah. A folder.

[Elika12]

http://www.animefreak.tv/watch/sayonara-zetsubou-sensei-episode-2-online#English

A AMV made me interested in this anime. xD

[Detective Tommy]

Egg Producer Says His Business Grew Too Quickly

English Current Events Assignment,

[Dus]

Current Events?
That's what you lot call Current Events?