Aihuxi.135
net.misc
utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!ihnss!ihuxi!otto
Wed May 5 23:33:59 1982
On the spelling of Go?del
By the way, the correct way to spell the great mathematician's name is not
Go:del
but rather
Goedel .
The umlauted 'o' is to be written 'oe' on typewriters without an umlaut.
Similarly 'ae' is used for umluated 'a' and 'ue' is used for umlauted 'u'.
On old German signs one can often see that instead of an umlaut over o's,
a's, etc., there was instead a small 'e' written. Moving that 'e' after
the letter to be umlauted (when no umlaut is available) is simply
revealing this letter once again.
George Otto
Bell Labs, Indian Hill
ihnss!ihuxi!otto
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