Aargh, this really does my head in!
I have a couple of friends who are lovely people but have obviously been playing around with their keyboards and have noticed umlauts - they are now spelling their babies' names with them... Using an O with umlaut because it looks like a shocked face and a U because it looks smiley
Plus there's others who randomly add acute accents because they think it makes them look more mysterious and sophisticated but haven't got the first idea how to pronounce them. I work as a languages teacher (which probably explains why I'm so annoyed!) and once taught two brothers, one called Shaun and the other called Sean (acute accent on the 'e', can't do it on phone ) and didn't realise they were the same name because apparently if it has an accent it must be a foreign mysterious name!
I know I'm being a ridiculous pedant and there's far bigger problems out there but...Aibu to inwardly cringe to myself?
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To cringe when people use accented letters wrongly? (light-hearted)
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CaptainBinker · 13/10/2013 22:50
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