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Does anyone else use a horizontal bar instead of an umlaut in German?

April 26, 2017bar culture German horizontal India Languages Society umlaut

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Does anyone else use a horizontal bar instead of an umlaut in German?

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It depends who was to read it 😉 When I just scribble something for myself, I often use bars as some sort of shorthand. Just laziness 😛 But if someone else has to read it, it’s not such a good idea. They probably could guess it, but it’s certainly not usual. Looks like some sort of font-slang, and it shows the writer is real lazy and inconsiderate for the reader And forget the bar on the u, that’s only confusing. That was learned in school by people who are over 70 now, who wrote in some long-since outdated “old german font”!