#u with umlaut

[janmisali]

Letter Tournament: U WITH UMLAUT vs BASELINE ESH

Ü (U with Umlaut)

SEED: 27

CODEPOINTS: U+00DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS, U+00FC LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS

PREVIOUS OPPONENT: W with Diaeresis

BIO: looks kinda like a smiley face.

ꭍ (Baseline Esh)

SEED: 38

CODEPOINT: U+AB48 LATIN SMALL LETTER BASELINE ESH

PREVIOUS OPPONENT: H

BIO: looks kinda like an integral sign.

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[kaiserin-erzsebet]

So, this is for anyone else who has ever read Kurrentschrift:

Dead people are really like, "Why put the u-bogen over the u when you could put it anywhere over the word, making it much harder to figure out which letter is a u and which one an n?"

[elysianasterism]

the umlaut and the diaeresis refer to different kinds of sounds...

[harpygon]

i spent 2 hours already sewing tiny paper letters onto cardboard only to now remember that english books (where ive been sourcingnmy letters from) dont use any Umlats bc they dont have them :(

[fair-lead]

these are so fun... so fancy...

[coldcoldstreets]

fucked around and came back to tumblr in the year 2024 bc i have been made clinically insane about brad callahan and max jägerman what a day

[satoruhour]

T MY SWEET BABYYY 😭😭😭—

HOW DO I MAKE MYSELF FINISH WRITING THIS GOJO X READER ONESHOT SO THAT I CAN MOVE ONTO A GETO X READER? 😭😭 the situation's so dire like my suguru fic won't make any sense until & unless ppl don't read the satoru fic but i js can't write another word in the gojo fic 🤧🤧🤧 & my mind's overflowing with the geto fic ideas 🤧🤧 [they're gonna be different readers, btw— just that one reader is very much reqd for the story of the other reader; but the vice versa ain't true 😓]

[gojo's stories and the reader in his fics r always a top priority to me— sorry not sorry— from a fellow gojo lover 😉😉]

KITTTTT HI BABY !!!! omg u so real... how far in are you? tbh if youre haaving trouble u could always move on to suguru first if u have the general idea! or does the ending of gojo directly carry over into suguru’s fic? if thats the case maybe u wanna take a break from the fic altogether and try again a few hours later when ur mind is refreshed? i get uuuuu !!! that need to perform is realness but i would say take a breather and write a small unrelated piece of work instead :3, rushing is never fun !!!

[seiwas]

✏️

ur writing feels like returning home and snuggling into my favourite blanket with soft songs playing in the background, after a tiring day at uni.

it is so beautiful and comforting to read; be it the cute sweet fluff, the heart-wrenching angst, the loving profound intimacy; everything's so well written– i can actually feel the affection and attention u pour into every word u type into ur stories. tysm sel for sharing ur amazing and – masterpiece, if i hv to say in one word– stories with all of us. ilysm!!!

kit!! thank you for playing 🤍

your writing reminds me of:

❤️‍🔥🛞💼🎬

fire blazing; the screeching of tires on concrete; suitcases and business suits; the ending credits in a movie theatre, rolling.

&

my darling kit!! thank you so much 🥺 i’m so happy my writing gives you that comfort aaaah 🥺 i am forever flattered that you find it beautiful pls 🤧 you’re speaking too highly of my writing aaaah 🥺 thank you thank you 🥺

send me a ✏️ and i’ll tell you what ~~vibe i get from your writing! (alternatively, you can also tell me what vibe you get from mine!)

[recreationaldivorce]

is there any intuitive and non annoying way to input non english characters (including just accented latin letters like éěè etc) with a qwerty keyboard? the best way I'd seen was the one ubuntu does where you can do like alt + u + " = ü and other similarly intuitive stuff for a whole bunch of characters that arent on the qwerty keyboard but now that I'm trying to become literate in mandarin too i wanna be able to write chinese characters too

[janmisali]

Letter Tournament: U WITH UMLAUT vs W WITH DIAERESIS

Ü (U with Umlaut)

SEED: 27

CODEPOINTS: U+00DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS, U+00FC LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS

BIO: either a fronted version of U or a normal U that is being marked as not part of a digraph.

Ẅ (W with Diaeresis)

SEED: 102

CODEPOINTS: U+1E84 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W WITH DIAERESIS, U+1E85 LATIN SMALL LETTER W WITH DIAERESIS

BIO: okay as far as I can tell (as in I looked it up on Wiktionary and it only listed one language using this letter) this version of W is in practice always an actual diaeresis and not an umlaut. it would be pretty cool to use this letter for /ɥ/ though. shoutout to that one phonetic transcription system that uses it for that.

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[cairfrey]

Welcome to the future of the 21st century

We have wireless boobies now!

[echo-s-land]

Idk if it's funny or not (it is for me) but every time I write my family name down, legally, officially, I'm writing it wrong

Because I'm writing it with the french spelling. The way my ancestors wanted it to be written.

But some administration guy wrote it down in German a century or so ago. So I should write it the German way too. All my family should.

But we don't.

[grymm-gardens]

Cassandra and the Nevarran Accent

and how it is a perfect recreation of the dead Gothic language

Accidentally discovered that Cassandra Pentaghast's accent matches up flawlessly with the extinct language of the Ostrogoths, and the Visigoths of pre-medieval Europe a few years ago and many of you wanted to see my notes so ive polished them up as much as I feel like and I am blessing you all with them now

I'll start by just going over the gothic language basics and then giving some good examples of Cassandra speaking, I am not a linguistics or etymology expert by any means, I am just a dumb ass who really likes ancient languages so bear with me, and ask questions if i make no sense

Gothic Language Basics

Phonetics-

Gothic does have very similar pronunciation to other Germanic languages with a few differences from it Frankish, and roman neighbors.

I am focusing on the basic and grammar and pronunciation as well as the phonetic alphabet, Gothic had a runic alphabet so there are a few letter without direct cognates and those will be spelled as they are pronounced for convenience

Rules - E, and O are always long, I is always short, A and U have both short an long variations EI digraph pronounced as long eye IU falling diphthong as in ew AI and AU digraphs each with numerous pronunciations

Short vowels - a, aí, i, aú, u Long               - ā, ē, ai, ei, ō, au, ū Diphthongs - ái, áu, iu Consonants  - b, g, d, kwa, z, h, th, k, l, m, n, ya/ja, p, r, s, t, w, f, x/ks, hw Significant Phonetics and Grammar

A lack of a short o sound, shift to an au sound instead

typical pronunciation of th, as well as V and W

light emphasis on the "hwh" sound of WH

Guttural sounds on vowels a, au, o ,u, and on consonants k, g, h

partly pitch, partly stress accent (think swedish as a very melodic example, german for a more stress based example)

no switching of the v and w pronunciation as seen in some west germanic languages

no rhotic r

no evidence of the Germanic umlaut

The way that i was going to have audio of her speaking here but tumblr is being a fucking menace so you will just have listen for yourselves, but pay close attention to how you will hear inconsistent pronunciation of the short o sound as in cot, no pronounced rhotic r's, proper th pronunciation, as well as her unique stresses on many other vowels

this isnt even to mention her hallmark guttural ugh sounds which are so unbelievably consistent with gothic it makes my heart sing

Some bonus Geographical Evidence if we look at the neighboring countries and languages at the time gothic was in use we see The roman empire - heavy use of greek and latin, the Franks - origins of the french language, the saxons -an ancestors of modern germans, the britons -ancestor of modern day britain and the empire of hispania - modern day spain these match up extremely well with nevarras neighboring countries being Orlais, The Anderfels, Tevinter, The Free Marches, even the way the Antiva is seperated from Nevarra by Tevinter matches the way The roman empire is positioned bewteen the goths and hispania The direct equivilents match up as Nevarra -The Goths Tevinter -The roman empire Antiva - Hispania Orlais - The Franks Ferelden/The Free Marches - Briton/Germanic States The Anderfels - Saxony Considering how much this geography influenced the gothic language its reasonable to assume Orlais, Tevinter, The Anderfels and The Free marches should have had similar effects on nevarran language.

maps for reference

Primary source was this Gothic Grammar Guide by Joseph Wright from 1910 that was based on the king james bible translation done by 4th century gothic priest Ulfilas

[pupkashi]

in which gojo realizes you truly see him

a/n: just a little thought i have i want to comfort him and hug him always <3 thank u to the amazing wonderful lovely @vagabond-umlaut for helping me w this fic <33 would’ve been hot garbage without u i love u xoxo <3

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Gojo Satoru had only known life through his many titles.

Gojo Satoru, head of the Gojo clan.

Gojo Satoru, holder of the Six Eyes and Limitless.

Gojo Satoru, the strongest sorcerer.

satoru hated titles. he hated being known and labeled for the things that didn’t even make up who he was. no one after suguru came close to trying to get to know him.

his fellow sorcerers always too busy or intimidated, viewing him as a spectacle.

there was a sense of longing in his heart to find someone who really wanted to know him. someone to ask him all his favorites, someone to ask him what he wanted to be as a child, what his fears were, if he had a middle name, what animal he’s always wanted as a pet.

but there was never anyone who got past the surface level questions.

until he met you.

you who upon meeting him gave him a kind smile, not a clue of who he was, telling him he could sit with you in the booth of the much too crowded coffee shop.

“they really should get more chairs around here” he mumbles, looking up at you with a small grin when you laugh in agreement, glancing up from your laptop.

“seriously! half the time it’s a gamble if I’ll be able to get some work done or if I’ll have to drive back home” you chuckle, gojo smiling at your words.

you both spent some more time talking, sipping on your respective drinks and getting to know each other.

satoru found out you had no clue about Jujutsu, given by the way you’d never heard of jujutu tech or of him. he couldn’t stop himself from giving you a charming smile, scribbling his number on a napkin before saying goodbye, a smile on his face as he walked out of the coffee shop.

you who on the second date asked him what animal he thinks he could fight and win, asking him his favorite songs and if he’d ever been to a concert before.

you who on the fourth date had him giggling, confessing how much he liked you and telling you all about his life because he wants this to work out so bad and it can’t start off as a lie.

you who a week later calls him, asking him to answer truthfully when you ask him what animal he could really take in a fight, laughing when he answers with ‘at least a cow’ his lips curling upwards at the sound.

he’s laying on the couch with you, your hands lost in his hair as the movie plays in the background softly, your voice is quiet as you speak up.

“do you have a middle name?” the question is simple, some might think it silly. but to satoru it���s like his whole world is flipped upside down.

because here he is, in your warm and homey apartment that’s nothing like his cold larger one, with you, who brings him all the love and joy he could’ve ever imagined. he’s looking at you with glimmering eyes, heart stuttering at the sight of you in his shirt that you’d stolen with a smile.

it’s with that question that he’s realizing he’s finally found someone who really wants to know him. who doesn’t care for his power or status, but cares for his terrible jokes and interests.

“toru?” you asked, pulling him out of his daze and back to reality.

“sorry” he smiles sheepishly before shaking his head ‘no,’ a look in his eyes you can’t quite place.

satoru finally finds himself with titles that mean something to him. titles that he cherishes and holds close to his heart.

Gojo Satoru, who eats anything and everything that was sweet, claiming they’re no match for the sweet taste of your lips.

Gojo Satoru, who had an insane secret obsession with romcoms. an obsession you were sure was just to get you to cuddle him until you found him up at 3 am watching a terrible hallmark movie all on his own.

Gojo Satoru, who couldn’t stand when you were mad at him, going to drastic measures for you to forgive him.

Gojo Satoru, who considered himself lucky enough to hold the title of your boyfriend, your confidant and your favorite sorcerer.

[morgaseus]

I’ve encountered a few on AO3 but I too am desperate for more Gojo fics anywhere 😭 if you have any recommendations too please I beg give some to meee 😭😭

Ohhh yesss ive got quite a few! Also, please look out for the content warnings!

Series

Sincerely not by saintobios (arranged marriage, modern au) (read this yrs ago so i cant remember much but i do remember crying at 10 pm in the kitchen while reading this)

Sundered by tojikai (baby daddy gojo, modern au)( made me sob )

Kintsugi by NoahLaval (arranged marriage, enemies to lovers, gojo x oc) (I love this! made me cry a lot, like really..)

No Cure by Tawus (enemies to lovers, reader is a curse user)

Exposure therapy by seoafin (angst, reader is in the same year as sashisu, au where toji became a teacher, also a geto/reader, but shoko is the endgame)(you should check out their other works too!)

Monster Hospital by mushmoon12 (enemies/rivals to lovers, lots of smut)

intrinsic warmth by thatdesklamp (angst, childhood friends to lovers)(yeah...)

Cursed Love by maespaces (angst, reader is a not a jujutsu sorcerer )(i forgot to add this!😭😭😭 but srsly tho rllylove this one, vry well written! im still reading it but u can tell ure in for a bumpy ride🥹)

Oneshots

Grey Cashmere by vagabond-umlaut (angst with a happy end, set during hidden inventory, reader is in the same year as sashisu)(one of my all time faves!!! its also part of a series but can be read as a standalone!)

an unwanted letter by piichuu (angst, post ch 236?ig?)(i read this during class... i just hope my classmates didnt see me cry)

Others. (I have not read this yet but ive been keeping an eye on it! Thought i might share as well)

Infidelity by tawus (angst, gojo and reader are married)

one day, three autumns by vagabond-umlaut (arranged marriage)

Minazuki by quirklessidiot (enemies to lovers, arranged marriage)

Devoted by aerinth (angst, friends to lovers)(also a geto/reader)

the color yellow by rhydonium (angst, hanahaki disease)(also a geto/reader)

Bonus!

Abalone on the shore by unolvrs (I dont rlly read much toji fics but this one made me sob on a morning! You'll need tissues for this one ig...😞)

[agwic]

What is Shampoo's name in Ranma 1/2?

...and Cologne and Mousse I guess, but they're not as important and I didn't wanna bloat the title.

Now, there is not one answer to this question, as you probably know if you've read more than one piece of fanfiction for Ranma 1/2, of if you know that they are Chinese characters in a piece of Japanese media with English words as names. So, in this post, I will attempt to provide every answer I can find, primarily as a resource for other Ranma fanfiction authors.

Starting with a disclaimer, I am not fluent in any of the languages I'll be discussing here, my only qualifications are that I am studying both linguistics and Japanese, and also studied Mandarin for a while in elementary school. If any native speakers have any corrections, I would love that!

Answer 0: English

Well, in basically all official Ranma media, her name is Shampoo, her grandmother and Cologne, and her childhood friend is Mousse. So, problem solved, right? Well, not really. Those obviously aren't their actual names, there's no way that can be the case!

Answer 1: Japanese

In Japanese, their names are シャンプー, コロン, and ムース. There are numerous ways to romanize Japanese, but I'd romanize those names as Shanpu, Koron, and Musu (if you want alternate romanizations, you can look them up, because I don't want to bloat this post with every possible romanization of everything). These are also Japanese words for shampoo, cologne, and mousse, and were borrowed into Japanese from English. And, シャンプー is pronounced almost identically to the English word Shampoo, with only the first vowel being different (the others are a bit more different though). So, translating these names as Shampoo, Cologne, and Mousse is probably a better translation than just romanizing them, but you can also do that, I guess. But, well, these three aren't actually Japanese, are they? So really we should figure out what their names are in Chinese.

Answer 1.5: Chinese Phonology

Well, Ranma 1/2 is in Japanese, so we just have to guess as to what their names are in Chinese, right? I mean, I don't remember ever seeing their names written down in Chinese in the anime, so we'll just have to take their names in Japanese, and translate them to Mandarin phonology. With this strategy, their names are Xianpu, Koulong, and Musu. However, since we never get surnames for them, maybe they should be split into two characters, with one being their surname? I mean, probably not, but most people who use this strategy call Shampoo "Xian Pu" rather than "Xianpu", so who knows. Regardless, this strategy isn't necessary, because despite me not remembering it, we do in fact have the Chinese characters for all three of these characters' names, which means we can figure out what their names are in Chinese properly.

Answer 2: Chinese

Their names, with Mandarin romanizations (since Mandarin is in fact the primary Sinitic language spoken in that area), are 珊璞 (Shānpú), 可崘 (Kělún), and 沐絲 (Mùsī). In English, standard practice is to leave off the tone diacritics, but otherwise those romanizations are standard. You could put a space in between the two syllables, but that would imply that they all only have one syllable as a given name, which is pretty rare, and that they all have different surnames, despite Cologne and Shampoo being family, and all three of them being from the same clan, and it seems like the standard practice in China is for rural clans like the Joketsuzoku to adopt a single surname. Speaking of which, the "zoku" in Joketsuzoku and the "zu" in Nüjiezu both just mean clan, and I feel like a much better translation of those names would be Joketsu clan and Nüjie clan. Anyways, rural clans in the region of China where Joketsuzoku is typically just use their clan name as a surname, so all three of them would have a surname of Nǚjié/Nüjie (the umlaut on the u is not a tone diacritic, so it isn't nearly as optional, but Nuejie should work if you must), which, in both Japanese and Chinese, goes before the given name.

Answer 2.5: Kanji

There's a minor problem with the above strategy, which is that most people don't suddenly switch to a different language when saying someone's name. In English, we usually approximate names as best as we can with English phonology, and for that strategy applied to Japanese, see Answer 1. However, with Chinese names being said in Japanese specifically, there's an alternate strategy. Because names in Japanese are usually written with the same characters as names in Chinese, you can often just read Chinese names as if they're Japanese names! Honestly, it's kinda weird, in-universe, that all the Ranma characters call them by adaptations of their names into Japanese phonology. Out-of-universe, it's not weird, because their names are a joke which wouldn't make sense if they did the normal thing.

However, if you're writing a fanfiction, and you find the joke of their names tasteless and bad, you can make characters do this instead, without changing the character's names! Because there are multiple readings of every Chinese character in Japanese, there are multiple possible readings of their names, but I picked the readings that seem to be most commonly used in names to determine that they could be called Joketsu Sanbaku, Karon, and Mokuito. These names are a bit weird, because their names in Chinese are a bit weird, because they needed to be to accommodate the joke.

Okay, wait, but why is the Sinitic language spoken in the area where they come from Mandarin? Aren't there, like, a ton of languages in China? And Southern Qinghai is kinda far from Beijing, and really rural, so you'd think they'd speak another language there. And you'd be correct, they just don't speak another Sinitic language.

Answer 3: Tibetan

So, given where Joketsuzoku is, if it were a real village, they would almost certainly speak the Rwanak dialect of Amdo Tibetan. Unfortunately, I could not find any English-language resources on the naming practices in Amdo Tibetan as a whole, much less Rwanak specifically. However, I could find some stuff on the naming customs of Tibetan in general, primarily Lhasa Tibetan, though it did note that Amdo Tibetans typically use their clan name as a surname (which, like Japanese and Chinese, goes first), as mentioned previously. Anyways, Tibetan given names are typically two words, each of which is two syllables, so four syllables total. This is obviously not anything like the names we have been given for these characters, so unless we just wanna make something up, we're gonna have to assume that they're just being referred to by the first part of their given name, which does seem to be somewhat common.

Now, there does not seem to be any romanization of Amdo Tibetan in common usage besides the IPA, nor can I find a sufficiently comprehensive list of words in Amdo Tibetan (and it goes without saying that neither of those exist for Rwanak either). Furthermore, I could not find a list of words even in Lhasa Tibetan which was written in the Latin alphabet, and I do not have the time to click through all 3000 Tibetan words in Wiktionary to check the pronunciation of each one. And, none of the most common Tibetan names look anything like Shanpu, Kelun, or Musi. So, I'm basically gonna do Answer 1.5 again, but Mandarin -> Tibetan instead of Japanese -> Mandarin.

So, the best approximations of their Mandarin names into Lhasa Tibetan, written in the Wylie transliteration because it's the most common one, with me arbitrarily picking one possible spelling based on which one looks best because Tibetan can spell the same word in many different ways, would be: Hranphu, Kholan, and Musi. My best attempt at listing every possible spelling of those names is as follows:

Shampoo(6 possible spellings): Hran{ph/'ph/b}u(r)

Cologne(108 possible spellings): {Kh/Khw/Mkh/'Kh/G/Gw}o(r){kl/gl/bl/rl/sl/brl/bsl/l/lw}an

Mousse(240 possible spellings): {Rm/Sm/Dm/Smr/M/Mr}u(r){s/sr/sw/gs/bs/bsr/z/zw/gz/bz}i(r)

As for their surname, I doubt "woman hero clan" is what they call themselves, and I have no idea where to even begin looking up how to come up with a realistic sounding Amdo Tibetan clan name, so I'd just avoid referring to them with a surname if I was going to use these names in a fic.

Now, am I suggesting you use any of that? No, probably not. It's pretty clear that Shampoo's native language, at the very least, is Mandarin, and while it is possible she grew up bilingual, given the lack of anything pointing towards Joketsuzoku being Tibetan in canon, it's probably best to assume Joketsuzoku switched to speaking Mandarin recently, since doing otherwise would likely require changing a lot of canon. This wouldn't even be unrealistic, since as far as I can tell, the Tibetan language has been declining in Qinghai for a while. Still, there's a lot of interesting stuff you could do, especially with regards to Cologne, with the fact that Joketsuzoku is likely historically Tibetan.

TL;DR: In my opinion, the best names for Shampoo, Cologne, and Mousse are Nüjie Shanpu, Nüjie Kelun, and Nüjie Musi, but you could probably do some interesting stuff with making them Tibetan.