Sunday, May 03, 2009

The Punctation of Olmütz

I was looking for information on the Punctation of Olmütz, one of the more obscure mid-19th-century European treaties.

When I keyed the name into the query box at Yahoo!, the God machine gave me the information I wanted, but asked at the same time, "Did you mean the punctuation of Olmütz?"

No, silly, the punctuation of Olmütz is an umlaut.

As you can see, along the way I learned how to type diacritical marks on a Mac keyboard. So now I can say Garcia de Véga, or "Feliz nuevo año," or Besançon, or "¿Que Paso?" I've wanted to be able to do that for a long time.

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