I take pride in not using umlauts, circumflexes and other non-English symbols in non-English words that should have them.
....why?
- Soup in a TARDIS
It's so trivial to use them in OS X or iOS, there's no excuse not to. Oh, wait.
- Victor Ganata
Because I'm far too lazy to do it.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
So you're proud of being lazy?
- Soup in a TARDIS
Technically, it's a spelling error.
- Brent Schaus
Extremely proud, Soup. Extremely.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Error as in doing something wrong, perhaps...error as in making a mistake, since it's intentional, no.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And how is it easy to do in iOS?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Wait, Alex, are you suggesting if you make a mistake on purpose, it's not an error?
- Akiva
If you do it on purpose, it's not a mistake.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'm going to catch hell for saying that in 3...2...1...
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Nope. I'm just going to walk away.
- Akiva
In iOS, long press any vowel on the virtual keyboard. Voilà!
- Victor Ganata
Well that's no fun, Akiva. After reading wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I'd say that it's more correct to say that if you do something wrong on purpose, then it's an error. If it happens because of a fault or accident, then it's a mistake. So yes, I am purposefully committing an error.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
It's incredibly easy in both iOS and OSx... What you're doing is arbitrary and strange, like me deciding that it's "easier" for me to leave the 'e' out of your name when I type, then being proud of the fact that I'm too lazy to type the e, and too stubborn to change. Of course, its you're world, Alx, we jest liv innit.
- That one guy. Bren.
Cool, thanks, Victor.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Right now I am neither on iOS or OS X. I am often arbitrary and strange, so yes.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Heh, the universe commands that all of those 'e's end up somewhere, Breeen.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If someone knows of an easy way to type that sort of thing on Windows, I'm all ears.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Character Map. Unless you're talking mobile Windows, in which case I have no idea. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us...
- Spidra Webster
That's what I thought...lazy I shall stay. Thanks though.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Thanks for sharing.
- Rodfather
In windows there are Alt- commands for everything. Having to write papers in French burned them into my memory...
- That one guy. Bren.
Unfortunately Alt codes don't work that way on all keyboards. On mine the code for ö (Alt+0246) reloads the page. The codes for é and è work, though.
- John (bird whisperer)
Weird. That's why I like OSx. :)
- That one guy. Bren.
Î dìśàgręē wīth Ãłéx.
- Stephen Mack
Well played, Stephen.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
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- Akiva
Dammit Akiva It's true because he's right.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
You guys are redonkulous.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Just looked up the definition of mistake. It says "an act or judgement that is misguided or wrong."........................
- Johnny
Scoble pride in full effect.
- Akiva
That's such a sign of respect towards different languages and cultures, Scoble. Thank you, you're my personal american hero.
- Gatto Nero
I thought "disrespectful," too. Plus harder to read for those of us who know the sounds, because umlaut is not decoration.
- Eivind
(Anyone else on a Mac getting some kind of typographical mishmash smeared over the six comments after John's comment about Alt 0246? I tried three browsers and it's in all of them.)
- bentley
Interesting. As more comments are added, the typographical smear shifts downwards. So it's not attached to a comment, it's attached to the end of the post.
- bentley
It's attached to Akiva's post, I don't see it shifting downward. But you can move the page so that it expands/collapses.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
That typographical mess has been appearing occasionally elsewhere on FF, so it's not unique to this thread.
- John (bird whisperer)
Or maybe it's Älèx's lack of them.
- John (bird whisperer)
John, yeah but it only shows up if someone does it with top-to-bottom symbols. The mess here is Akiva's fault.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
When I saw it earlier, on three browsers, the typographical mess was stretched out across four or five comments. Now it's compressed on one post. It's alive! It's alive!
- bentley
Yeah, it expands when it gets to a certain point in the browser. And you can scroll it off the screen and it will collapse until you scroll it back.
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
[courtsies]
- Akiva
Also, Gatto Nero pretty much dropped the mic on the whole thing. Boom.
- Akiva
Sorry, that you're just now finding this out, but I'm American, so if you are not, my time is more valuable than yours. Deal. **flies to some random country and trashes a room in a 5 star hotel**
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
WTELMF^
- OCoG of FF, Jimminy
Sarcasm, Jimminy, sarcasm.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble